In March of 2020 I was in the Loire Valley judging a Sauvignon Blanc competition that would effectively be my last travel outside of Spain for a year and a half. Due to quickly-changing conditions, once the competition was over, instead of taking a train to Bourgogne, I was instead whisked up to Charles de Gaulle airport where, given that it was the very first days of the pandemic, no one was wearing masks and we were all crushed into one of the dumpy budget terminals there. Undoubtedly, this is […]

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