Our British visitor last month left a copy of the Financial
Times in the Lounge. We were reading in it the other day and nearly choked
on our soy-milk-softened Postum: "Wine writing in English has, over the
past decade, become almost violently pragmatic." First of all, wine
writing: you mean it's a genre? Second of all: violently pragmatic?
Don't bet the chewy backbone in your delicately vegetal Cabernet
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