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D’Amato & Szabo: Wine ThievesArmenia: Stepping Back Through TimeThe world’s most ancient wine-producing region, with 6,000 years of history, is just beginning a modern winemaking renaissance. Why haven't you heard about Armenian wine? Unlike neighbouring Georgia, whose wine production has continued unbroken for millennia, Armenia’s ill-fated wine culture was drowned by successive waves of troubled historical events. But thanks to the country’s extreme climate, phylloxera-free volcanic soils, abundance of highly promising, antediluvian grape varieties such as areni and voskehat - the ancestors of all wine grapes - growing ambition, national pride and a commitment to help rebuild the country through resurrecting its wine industry, small but might...2021-08-1359 min