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Bacchus to the future: the wines future generations will – and won’t – be drinking
A friend brought round a bottle of 1979 Château Beychevelle the other night, part of a case he’d picked up at auction. It was a bit tired, flabby and past its best – not unlike your correspondent – but still had a certain élan about it, a hint of past …