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Wine is no longer just red or white. Here’s how to decode the new colour wheel

By Eric Asimov
New York Times·
7 mins to read
Wine is no longer just red or white. Here’s how to decode the new colour wheel
Wine is no longer just red or white. Here’s how to decode the new colour wheel

Wine seems both deceptively simple and unrelentingly complicated.

The complicated part is obvious: unfamiliar names ready to trip up all but the most avid devotee; myriad facts, including varieties of soil, sources of oak barrels, winemaking techniques and so on; obscure grapes from esoteric places. And of course, the deconstructed

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