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Letter: Letters : . . .

Published 29 June 1996

From Graham Gibberd

London

If Patrick McGovern and Hazel Muir had joined the Greeks or myself in a glass
of retsina, they would realise the timelessness of 7000 years of viniculture and
how wrong they were to assume that white wine smelling and tasting of turpentine
produced by pine resin additives cannot be enjoyed without a hangover.

Issue no. 2036 published 29 June 1996

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