Why the steepest slopes often yield the best wines
In the Prosecco region and beyond, great effort comes with great reward.
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Nina Caplan
Nina Caplan is the 2018 and 2014 Fortnum & Mason Drink Writer of the Year and the 2014 Louis Roederer International Wine Columnist of the Year for her columns on drink in the New Statesman, and the author of The Wandering Vine: Wine, The Romans and Me, published by Bloomsbury.
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