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Want to know what we do here? These posts will give you an idea:
• The best wine advice: Three things everyone should know — and it about varietals, appellations and wine regions, or even price. It’s about appreciating wine, which is what matters, and is too often lost in wine foolishness.
• A few words about “healthy” wine. Marketers are falling all over themselves to market wine as “healthy,” which is just as silly as it is counterproductive. Wine in moderation is part of a healthy lifestyle. Wine as healthy? Who’s kidding who?
• “Curated” wine clubs, and why they don’t seem to be the answer, in which I explain how some wine clubs can afford to sell 15 bottles of wine for something like $15 — and why the wine always seems disappointing.
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