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Looking at the world through the lens of wine, drinking wines of Appalachia and the Southeast.

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    Should East Coast wine regions take cultural cues from medieval Europe? Probably not. (opens the original)

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    I get a strange feeling when I go to Europe and see the sights. There’s always a sense of awe. But there’s also a feeling of unease—I look up at these architectural masterpieces that have persevered through time, and the feeling is something like: what would the pagans have built? Touring the European wine regions as a wine writer in Appalachia, I find myself wishing that my industry did a better job at confronting the problematic history of which wine has been a sacrament. The fortressed cities

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