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Wine bars year zero

Were old fashioned wine bars really so intimidating?

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Henry Jeffreys
Apr 26, 2024
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The wine bar is back according to an article in Observer Food Monthly last weekend. It’s a perennial topic. Historian Giles MacDonogh quipped that he’d pitched a similar article to the Financial Times 20 years ago. About ten years ago I wrote in Food & Wine magazine: “Today, wine bars are fashionable. There’s even been talk that wine itself might be… *w…

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