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Koreans and Drinking August 17, 2007

Filed under: Chang-Rae Lee — hotandnerdy @ 4:51 pm

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Chang-Rae Lee has a short piece in this month’s Food+Wine. It’s about wine.

The worst wine I ever had was in Tuscany. I’ve tasted plenty of bad wine in my life, but this was different because I drank it with gusto. It was a gift, handmade, presented in a green plastic acqua minerale bottle with a mismatched screw top. This was seven years ago, when my wife and I and our then-three-year-old daughter spent September in a village 12 miles south of Siena…