Armenia – the next chapter

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A new generation of born-and-bred Armenians – mostly women – is creating the most exciting chapter in Armenian wine yet. See also Armenia – the lay of the land and Armenia – tasting notes, part 1 and part 2.

It was two o’clock in the morning. The airport was disconcertingly busy for what was the middle of the night in a small city of a very small country landlocked in the middle of the inscrutable Caucasus region. I walked through customs, scanning signs in curlicue letters that meant nothing to my Latinated brain, as foreign conversations bubbled up around...