Stolen credit cards are more likely to be used to buy hard liquor than wine, for example, because it is easier to fence.
Despite such incursions, Pinotage is still pretty hard to find on restaurant wine lists and retail-store shelves.
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Zeynep designed it and it has a proper wine list (the French sommelier came over and quietly explained, in grieved tones, how hard it was to get decent foreign wine because of the Islamic-inspired alcohol taxes).
Wine critics have a hard enough time guessing varieties and regions blind, which is why they tend not to, especially not publicly.
On the first night, the wine was impenetrable, tasting hard, closed and bitter.
Growing up I only saw the hard work part of growing grapes and making wine.
While the wine committee's analysis is clearly hard-headed, there is some evidence that it is not entirely immune to external political pressures.
The importance of wine to this nation of four million is hard to exaggerate.
Yet you'd be hard-pressed to believe that the high-scoring wine critic owns a stash of B's.
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It is hard to find bad champagne, given how tightly regulated the grape and wine production is in a region famous for quality grapes.
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But it can be hard to know how many units are in a can of beer or bottle of wine.
He told BBC News the 92-year old was "almost completely blind and hard of hearing" but still loved "a good joke and a glass of wine".
That evening it rained very hard but Pelkey and Papa were snug in a bistro, with a bottle of wine and some cheese and bread, looking down on Paris.
Explaining the rise of Barcelona as a naval power to rival Italian city-states like Pisa and Genoa, he notes the balanced diet of Catalan sailors: more biscuit and cheese than the Venetians, less wine than the Neapolitans, but plenty of garlic, onions and spices to make hard biscuits more palatable.
She found if she told her students that, for example, a wine had high alcohol content, high acidity and good body, the students had a hard time remembering that.
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