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...“He’s the most passionate person we’ve ever known about wine,” Isabel said....
...Melchor stares the reader down even as she invites us into the mind of the girl’s abuser: “Christ, you could tell she was hot for it even when she was a kid; ever since she was a little girl you could see...
...Sand slips like time, the duchess died a few years after this portrait; we care about her and her entire world only because a genius evoked for ever how they thought and felt....
...Both the 2009 vintage and the 1999 vintage of Concha y Toro’s Don Melchor and Montes Alpha M were particularly impressive – as well they might be when they retail at around £50 a bottle....
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