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Brazil – first impressions

Julia Harding
Julia Harding MW
Tuesday, 26 April 2011
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This is the first of four articles about her trip to Brazil earlier this year that Julia will share with us this week. Tasting notes for producers A to M be found in part 1, and for producers P to V in part 2.

There's no time-wasting or complacency among Brazilian wine producers. Or if there is, I blinked and missed it. Instead I encountered ambition, co-operation, passion, efficiency, investment and kindness, not necessarily in that order.

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