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A Standoff in the Homemade Wine Showdown

Posted: Jan 14, 2008 3:46pm ET

Midway through Saturday’s tasting of homemade wines , one of my friends summed up what had transpired: “What Mother Nature giveth, Father Time taketh away.” We uncorked more than 20 wines in the span of three hours and there were some wonderful surprises, a few duds, a few corked bottles, yet overall enough evidence to suggest that even amateurs can make pretty good wine, as the homies stood up to some of the big guns.

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