MONTCLAIR, Va. (AP) — In a wine shop an hour outside of Washington, owner Arthur Lampros sampled a wine from a part of the world that was totally new to him, racking his brain to pin down the tastes on his tongue.
Was there a body of water near the vineyards, he wondered, that would moderate any storms or heat waves buffeting the grapes?
“Absolutely, absolutely” — Ukraine’s Black Sea coast, near Odesa, said Giorgi Iukuridze, a Ukrainian winery owner introducing Ukraine’s modernized wines to a broad U.S. audience for the first time.
Sam Lerman, a U.S. Air Force vet and one of a number of former American
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