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Epigenetics and old vines
19th February 2021
Have you ever got close and personal with a holly bush? The European holly, Ilex aquifolium, exhibits a phenomenon wonderfully named as heterophylly. This means that although all its leaves are genetically diff...
Jamie Goode is a London-based winewriter who is currently wine columnist with UK national newspaper The Sunday Express. As well as writing he also lectures and judges wine.

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