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Drink

Treasures from a lost domaine

10 October 2013

2:00 PM

10 October 2013

2:00 PM

René Engel must have been a wonderful man. He studied wine-making before fighting in the trenches during the first world war, and spending some time in German captivity. He then went home to run — and improve — the family domaine in Vosne-Romanée. In those days, most Burgundian growers still thought of themselves as farmers who made wine.

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