Years ago I was asking a colleague from California about a Napa Valley wine, inquiring naively if the bottle I had bought was a good year. “Every year is a good year,” he said. It had me wondering. Why is there so much variation in wines from Georgia, or, say, the Burgundy region in France?
Column: Ever wonder why Georgia's wine varieties differ from their European counterparts?
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