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Masseto and Pétrus face off in Florence

By James Suckling

The air was thick with anticipation. In the lofty dining room of Florence’s Enoteca Pinchiorri restaurant, a Wine Spectator Grand Award holder and a Michelin three-star, a few Italian journalists and .....

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