Winemakers come to town to put on a show all the time—to talk up their wares and get restaurateurs and wine writers to taste them. They're always interesting—even if the wine isn't that interesting, the mere fact that anyone gets to live that life in their family's 18th-century chateau is enough to get you working on being reincarnated into a winemaking family next time—and they do their best to dance around the ineluctable fact that turning the abstract sensory experience of wine into words never really feels like it works.…
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