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Drinking to the Future

Wine has been collected since the late 17th century by everyone from Thomas Jefferson to Andrew Lloyd-Webber, but any suggestion that it would be sold on for a profit, effectively creating a wine stock market, would in days gone by have made any gentleman choke on his venison steak.

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