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Oz Clark on Slovakian Wine  |
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Oz Clarke, author of a shelf-full of books about wine, including Oz Clarke’s
Pocket Guide to Wine 2007, laments the loss of "the traditional
heart of wine," the taste of "the place, the grape variety, and the people who
make it."
In an effort to get away from the everyday "ultramodern, smooth-edged" wines,
Clarke traveled to Russia and the former Soviet bloc nations, where he enjoyed
organic Slovakian Frankovka and other wines. These wines were
not sophisticated, processed, or homogenized, but they were wines "of place"
and "culture."
Ultimately, he says, "I loved drinking them, because they brought the taste of
human endeavor to the glass, rather than the smooth sheen of industrial
efficiency."
You, too, will love drinking our wines because The River fills each bottle only
with the traditional heart of wine.
Mr. Clarke's statements about Slovakian wine are general approbations and
should not be interpreted as a specific endorsement of The River label.
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