“Good wines are distinctive. They speak of the place the grapes were grown and the people who made the wine. You cannot simply substitute, say, a Sonoma chardonnay for a chardonnay wine made in Chablis or in Meursault. A riesling made in Washington State will never have the character of one from the Mosel Valley of Germany.”
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Import penalties threaten the global network of small businesses responsible for wine’s glorious diversity. They will harm American producers, too.
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