Neil Goodwin MW on relishing a red-letter day for the ages, and how tasting Romanée-Conti 1899 verified that wine transcends mere liquid in a glass.
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The best bottles are always something more.
They are talismanic rites of passage to a place distant from the putative truths of empirical analysis, or the shallow notion that a wine is only as good as what is in the glass.
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