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[Tourist with a Typewriter] Her wines are designed and priced to be international as opposed to local, and in truth are probably easier to find in New York City than in Charlottesville. In a June 1st article in the Daily Progress, Kluge is quoted as saying, “It would have been fun to grow a regional wine, but I told myself it would be nice to grow a wine that is well received elsewhere.” Her equating regional wines with “fun” and saying indirectly that they are therefore not able to be enjoyed anywhere outside of that region, seems to contradict the traditional French philosophy of Terroir which says that the region is the meaning of a wine.
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