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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 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.
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
When it comes to Italian wine, quality classifications can be confusing, even for the most astute of wine lovers. Keen to understand what Chianti Classico’s 11 new subzones mean in the glass, Nina Caplan heads to Tuscany