Freedom, truth and beauty in the wines of the Loire
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There is politics in wine as there is almost everything else. While in the Loire Valley, Nina Caplan ponders what matters the most when it comes to what's in the glass
Nina Caplan
Club Oenologique contributor
Nina Caplan is the Lifestyle and Travel columnist for Club Oenologique online and wine columnist for The New Statesman and The Times’s Luxx magazine. Her first book, The Wandering Vine: Wine, The Romans and Me, came out in 2018 and won several awards; she’s trying to stay in one place long enough to write a second one.
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