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Dates: during 1980-1989
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There has been a dramatic improvement in table wines throughout the price spectrum. It is a truism that today's "jug" wines -bottles containing 1.75 liters at prices ranging from $3.50 to $5-are superior to the more expensive premium wines of a decade ago and right-years better than the vin ordinaire that gurgles by the gallon down French gullets. A major step in the de-Colanization process has been marked by vintage labeling, meaning that at least 95% of the wine in the bottle was grown in the stated year rather than blended with other vintages. (While...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Living: Young Bacchus Comes of Age | 1/14/1980 | See Source »

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