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Marchese Antinori Chianti Classico Riserva 2019

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 "She also knew that she herself probably read more than was healthy for her, set too much store by reading, had a kind of neurotic obsession with literature and its supposed moral benefits."  When I have reached page 52 of Jonathan Coe 's Middle England I was confronted with a cruel reality that may affect me as well. Unsure about my rather obsessive behaviour and how it seems to get even more obsessive as I am getting older I have run to my girlfriend and asked whether I was, by any chance, close to such a state. She coldly said I was already stranded there. For a long time. And with wine as well. I am not going to pretend that I got shocked with the answer as I was already suspecting that something similar would be coming.   It is, somehow, true, I have to recognize. The diversity of offers in what respects the book and the wine market are, to a certain extent, very similar. You have an almost non-ending offer of styles, different quality levels (in this case boo...