Bruce Anderson

Drink: The great white Burgundy disaster

Escaping the scourge of oxidisation

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issue 04 January 2014

We agreed that it was the gravest crisis facing mankind. It has led to dashed hopes, widespread grief and a universal loss of confidence in the future. As the scientists seem powerless, the world is thrown back on superstition. If the learned have no answers, one may as well listen to old Jacques, who remembers his great uncle’s advice about coping with phylloxera.

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