date:Jan 15, 2013
ts of growing competition from other countries, higher temperatures in recent years have meant grapes with lower acidity and higher sugar content. That makes for higher alcohol and fruitier some say cloying wines.
As you get older you dont want those hugely alcoholic fruit bombs, says Juan Sanchez, owner of Le Derniere Goutte, a wine shop on Pariss storied Left Bank.
In France, where wine is an important part of social culture, alcoholic fruit bombs are also counterintuitive to the typical p