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Norton

t doesn’t matter that Norton isn’t grown in the world’s fanciest regions or that its heritage is more than a little suspect. To Andrew Meggitt, who has been making wine with the red grape for 20-some years, Norton is about as American as grapes get: “That’s what sells

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