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Found in a friend’s cellar — the wines of a lifetime

16 December 2017

9:00 AM

16 December 2017

9:00 AM

In longevity, great wine can march with human life. Creating (better still, maintaining) a fine cellar really is a compact between the dead, the living and those not yet able to appreciate serious claret. There is a sort of comparison with trees and houses, yet in those cases, the time-scales transcend the shortness of our lifespan.

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