The New Wine Literacy

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for the Dec. 15, 2008 issue

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This Issue: Big Red Wines

Matt Kramer
Issue: December 15, 2008

Of late I've been preoccupied by the impact, and the desirability, of a radically changed—and still changing—wine world. Simply put, we now have a) so many new wines; b) from so many new or revived places; c) from so many new producers, that everything we once considered "wine literacy" is almost obsolete.

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