Tasting Italian Wines since my first visits from 1969-72, I still express amazement at the speed of quality improvement in a country with 4000 years of wine-making history. As recently as the 70’s, most Italian wines (at least those brought to the US) were rather ‘rustic’ at best; either oxidized, gritty tannicity, faulty or simply lacking in character …
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