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Wines of the week revisited

By chance I happen to have tasted more recent vintages of several of my past wines of the week, all of them first vintages when first tasted, and thought you might be interested in the progress of these new wines. One was going the right way, I thought, but two of them seem to have wandered off in less desirable directions.

Passo Doble 2000 Tupungato, Masi

The 1999 vintage of this interesting blend of Veronese expertise and Argentine grapes was a fairly recent wine of the week but this second vintage is even better – more refined, less rustic, more...