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Article: Chenin blanc lovers take heart
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- International Herald Tribune
- Article date:
- March 9, 2007
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Eric Asimov
International Herald Tribune
03-09-2007
If you love wines made from the chenin blanc grape as I do, you are grimly aware that your source for good bottles has been more or less restricted to one: the Loire Valley of France.Should a disaster befall the vineyards of Anjou, Saumur and Touraine an earthquake, perhaps, or a plague of chardonnay-loving vignerons the world's reservoir of Vouvray and Savennieres could be wiped out. We would be left to battle for the few good chenin blancs from California, or the already scarce bottles from Paumanok Vineyards on the East End of Long Island.However far-fetched this scenario may sound, all who hold chenin blanc dear should be soothed to ...
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