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New York State of Wine

One of America's oldest and least appreciated wine cultures hides in plain sight, overshadowed by California yet quietly making some of the country's most distinctive bottles. From the glacial Finger Lakes to maritime Long Island, this is a region a warming world may be turning into a star.

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Finding Closure

The stopper is the least glamorous part of a wine bottle and among the most consequential. Its story runs from the bark of a Mediterranean oak to a strip of aluminum, and the argument is still going.

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The Portugal Primer

A small country holds one of wine's deepest benches, home to the world's oldest regulated vineyard and hundreds of grapes grown nowhere else. Port opened the door, but the whole house rewards a look inside.

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