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Time Travel: Wine From Some of the Oldest Vines in Europe

These wines growing on the Amalfi Coast, just south of Pompeii and Vesuvius at the Tenuta San Francesco, are probably over 400 years old. They managed to survive the phylloxera epidemic of the late nineteenth century by being in a remote valley with volcanic soil. I have seen more than a hundred year old vines […]

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