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    ODE TO THE VINE

    Nov 02, 2020 4 minutes
    Text JEANETTE IPAPO-TUASON

    “The best wine is the one you enjoy.“

    A winery owner told me this while we were having dinner at Flower Drum Melbourne during Formula 1 weekend. I was very young back then and just starting to appreciate wines and initially felt intimidated with its vast offerings compared to my then drink of choice, scotch.

    The earliest traces of wine was seen in China around 7000 BC, but it is acknowledged that its birthplace was in Georgia in 6000 BC. Its westward spread is credited to the Phoenicians who created city-states on the Mediterranean coast, which you now know as Lebanon and Syria. The heavy association of wine

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