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The Wandering Vine – book review

Tuesday 11 December 2018 • 5 min read
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The Wandering Vine 
Wine, the Romans and me 
Nina Caplan 
Published by Bloomsbury 
ISBN 9781472938442 
Also available in digital format 
£16.99 

Nina Caplan was born in the UK to Australian parents. Her grandfather, born in Leeds to a Jewish family fleeing Russia, was named Yitzhak, written as Isaac on his birth certificate, and shortened to Jack. Caplan grows up at the elbow of her father’s passion for wine, falls in love with words, then films, then wine and food, and travels the world writing about travel and film, food, art and wine when she’s not being editor of various publications...

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