Any wine lover should take a chance on stumbling over a word or two for the delicious rewards in Greek wine.

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Nuts are generally good accompaniments to most aperitifs, but woe betide the wine lover who attempts to pair dry roasted peanuts with wine.

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Easy to read and peppered with references to contemporary music, the book will no doubt appeal to the less formal wine lover, too.

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One of the wine lover's greatest pleasures--that there are tens of thousands of individual versions of "wine" available, with 7, 000 years of complex history and tradition behind them--is also a wine lover's biggest headache.

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But it would have been a total bore to the casual wine lover and consisted of nothing more than a handful of First Growth Bordeaux Chateaux and an endless list of the same top Burgundies from different producers.

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As a wine lover, what I find most appealing about his approach to the subject is his propensity to question, think deeply and encourage, sometimes inspire, others to broaden their own understanding of wine by developing a sense of their own personal taste.

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