Is the secret to great wine under the sea? (via
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Does the sea hold the secret to truly great wines? To find out a trio of French wine lovers — a vineyard manager, a barrel maker and an oyster farmer — teamed up to test the myth, above and below water. “I had heard a bunch of stories about wines ageing at sea,” Bruno Lemoine, who runs the cellars…
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