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  1. The Wine Poet of Paris: Susan Barbour

    Blog: ParisienSalon.com - 3 February 2010

    Susan Barbour always tells people that, unlike with most sommeliers, there was no “bottle that did it for me.” Instead it was a grape—a moldy, rotten, wrinkled grape from the Sauternes region—as well as the peculiar way the angled light hit the vine-rows and the charming idiosyncrasies of the winemaker who led that tour. All of these components intersected in the glass, and suddenly she saw that wine was poetry.

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