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[another wine blog] The bottle of Plavac has been waiting patiently for us to drink it since it arrived in March.  Every time I suggested it, Joe vetoed, because he assumed it would be too cloying for his taste. I didn’t want to drink the entire bottle by myself, so it remained in our wine jail.

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