Episode 281: The scientists changing wine

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Feb 19, 202633:10Arts

For over 100 years, UC Davis has produced some of the most important figures in wine. Today we talk to Dr Ben Montpetit, one of the world’s leading scientists working in advancing and expanding wine to find out the histo...

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