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Soviet wine archive - tasting notes
I described in Soviet wine archive – the video , the extraordinary tasting of 120 'treasures' from the Soviet era that I took part in during my recent visit to Russia's Black Sea coast. Below are my tasting notes on these extraordinary wines dating from the early 1950s, entered in the right-hand column of the grid with which I was issued. (Deuced efficient, these Russians.)
Since I feel that interest in these wines will be fairly academic (you are unlikely to run into them at your local wine retailer), we will not be entering them into our searchable tasting notes database , and I have edited them fairly cursorily. But I thought...
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