Balance Can Compensate for High Alcohol and Give Greatness

By James Suckling
Posted: Tuesday, March 11, 2008

A lot is said and written about high-alcohol wines and how they don't age, and how they are not great quality, and blah, blah, blah. But I think it really comes down to the balance of a wine. The quality.....

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