Inside IWM, April 21-24, 2014: Location, Location, Location Edition

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Vines at Il Palazzone We began this week with a tour of Sicilia’s winemaking history, and we ended it with an impassioned invitation to join the cult of Brunello. These pieces converge not only on being about wine in general, or our recent eLetter offers of wine in specific, but also by highlighting the importance of terroir–those magical, ineffable qualities of site-specific place–in selecting, appreciating and understanding wine. RKO came to his own appreciation of terroir in a three-decade vintage tasting of Montevertine Le Pergole Torte. Spoiler alert: he was blown away. And David Gwo put our history lesson of Sicilia into practice when he enjoyed a delicious value wine: under $30 COS Frappato. Our experts took a somewhat broader view in…


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