Although it has always been very hard to sell French wine in the US, one particular brand is really going against the trend.

尽管法国葡萄酒在美国一直很难卖，不过有一个牌子却一枝独秀。

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The experience is similar for most of us when it comes to our first sips of wine, hard liquor, and coffee as well.

而当我们第一次接触到红酒，烈性酒和咖啡时，都会有这种感受。

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Skip the full bar. Instead, serve just wine, beer, soda, and one popular cocktail (it's hard to turn down a margarita or mojito).

不要准备太多的酒水，只要有葡萄酒，啤酒，汽水和一种受欢迎的鸡尾酒就够了。

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Yet France may raise the age limit for beer and wine sales to eighteen, the same as for hard liquor there.

VOA: special.2009.04.02

The new rules apply to "light alcohol"beverages, but not to wine, vodka or other hard liquors.

VOA: standard.2009.10.15

Despite such incursions, Pinotage is still pretty hard to find on restaurant wine lists and retail-store shelves.

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Wine critics have a hard enough time guessing varieties and regions blind, which is why they tend not to, especially not publicly.

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On the first night, the wine was impenetrable, tasting hard, closed and bitter.

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