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John Graves
It was with great interest, excitement, and some trepidation, that I headed out to Porto. The great writer Robert Graves had told me in “Goodbye to All That” that the Portuguese are the dirtiest people in Europe and not in a good way. I went there in search of new wine and found an old wine…
‘I don’t know much about wine, but I know what I like.’ Here’s an opposing theory. No, you sodding don’t. Or as they say in Hull: “ooo I doo layk a glass of drey waat whane, it’s terribly civilyzzzed”. Music to the ears of any vendor of wine in establishments from a white tablecloth restaurant, to a…