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Dirt, Diesel and B.O.—The Requisite Ingredients for Good Wine

By Richard Betts
Posted: Monday, November 12, 2007

I recently found myself in the Rhône Valley with about 30 other pickers taking refuge in the shade of an old storage shed. Mid-afternoon, we all sat hot, parched, sticky and, in my case, with a .....

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