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The 2008 Wine Experience
Winemakers, chefs and fans gather in New York to celebrate outstanding wines despite a troubled economy
Mitch Frank
Issue: December 31, 2008
Bright and early on an October Friday, just before the first seminar of the 2008 California Wine Experience, Wine Spectator editor and publisher Marvin R. Shanken summed up the mood outside New York's Marriott Marquis hotel ballroom with a few harsh words: "Subprime mortgages.
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