
With the excellent '98s in the market, there has never been a better time to discover the aromatically compelling, flamboyantly rich red wines of the Languedoc.
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The expat American expert on Italian wine surveys the best new wines from Tuscany, including '95 Brunello, '97 Chianti Classico Riserva and a number of exciting new estates on the Tuscan coast.
Editor's note: Daniel Thomases has been a co-editor of Luigi Veronelli's annual guide to Italian wines (I Vini di Veronelli) since 1991. Thomases, an American expatriate who has lived in Italy since 1971, is also a frequent contributor to such wine periodicals as Decanter and Vinum and was responsible for the Italian entries in The Oxford Companion to Wine.
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1997 and 1998 were an excellent and a very good year, respectively, for the sweet wines of Bordeaux.
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My most extensive report to date on the best new wines from Australia includes everything from great values under $15 to freakishly concentrated shiraz bottlings that must be tasted to be believed.
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