
Recent and impending developments affecting the retail wine market:
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My spring tour of this captivating region in northeastern France focused on the copious crop of '99 and the challenging harvest of 2000, a year in which many of Alsace's top producers made stunningly rich, succulent wines for drinking now or for laying down.
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With the international market clamoring for the 2000 red Bordeaux, the very good '98s and the impressively rich '99s from Sauternes and Barsac offer some great values for fans of Bordeaux's sweet wines.
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The Italian wine expert surveys the top estates of Campania, Basilicata, Apulia, Calabria, Sicily and Sardinia, turning up a host of inviting inexpensive wines as well as some entirely more serious world-class reds at the high end.
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There are more topnotch Australian wines on retail shelves than ever before, and my most extensive coverage to date of these wines (more than 300 recommended current releases) includes literally dozens of excellent to outstanding shiraz bottlings.
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