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Article: Tour de Wine.(Lifestyle)
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- Seattle Post-Intelligencer
- Article date:
- August 11, 2009
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For a weary sports writer, the seemingly glamorous Tour de France is anything but wine and roses. There's never enough time to stop and smell the latter, and one's consumption of the former is sorely limited by the number of kilometers to be negotiated each night to reach the next stage's start or finish.
You can imagine how torturous this is when you are in France and rarely out of sight of grapes ripening on the vine. Still, during the recent Tour, I picked my spots -- much like the cyclists themselves -- and somehow survived to make it to Paris, too, with enough good wine memories to keep me from breaking down and crying when I think about all the stuff I ...