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Digital drinking – NFTs and wine
Where wine meets non-fungible tokens. Necessary futuristic thinking? Would you swap my bottle of 1982 Ch Lafite with yours? Even though they are the same wine, their provenance might be...
Richard Hemming MW
Tuesday 3 May 2022
• 6 min read
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