I became a wine-lover aged ten, at my father’s side – and it connects us still
Security, for me, is the memory of a Monbazillac, tasted for the first time on that hot summer’s day in France.
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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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