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Wine from Brazil's unsung savannah makes a splash
Wine from Brazil's unsung savannah makes a splash
Business and Economy
by  AFP

The tropical savannah around Brazil's ultra-modernist capital is not exactly known as wine country, but French enologist Jean-Michel Barcelo gushes as he plucks a ruby-red grape and pops it in his mouth. "The technique they're using here is different from what you see anywhere else in the world," says Barcelo, a silver-haired Frenchman who takes his wine very seriously.