Wine from Australia, Chile and Argentina was mostly bottom-of-the-barrel, cut-rate stuff you'd be embarrassed to order on a first date.

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Hughes now gets about 75% of his wine in California and the rest overseas, from Chile to Australia, where the bidding tends to be less intense but the regulatory hurdles higher.

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Its red wine, in particular, can stand up to any good equivalent from Chile or Argentina, and most of the big supermarkets (Soriana, Chedraui, Mega) carry a range.

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