The red badge of honour
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Feuersteig vineyard, Tinhof Lukas Plöckinger picks me up in Eisenstadt at 6.30am prompt, on a chilly October morning. Lukas is the winemaker and vineyard manager at Weingut Tinhof, in Austria's red wine heartland Burgenland, and he's my teacher today as I pop my grape-picking cherry. Why am I doing this? Because I'm hoping that a day's physical immersi…
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