ANOTHER WINE, by Valentin Morel
On my new English translation of Jura vigneron Valentin Morel's 2023 memoir Another Wine. Plus: interviews with Morel, Doubs vigneron Sylvain Messager, L'Auberge de Bellevie's Zoe Boinet, and more.
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Natural wine culture, by Aaron Ayscough. Reporting from Paris since 2010.
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