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BY LETTIE TEAGUE
CERTAIN TRUTHS can be considered self-evident: All men are created equal; everything tastes better with bacon; and Beaune is one of the world's great wine towns. As the longtime commercial hub of the Burgundy wine trade, Beaune would be great simply by virtue of its location (a few miles from some of the world's greatest vineyards), but it's also great thanks to its many excellent restaurants and wine shops. In Beaune, great wine-drinking opportunities abound.
Beaune is an ancient town settled thousands of years ago. It's also a walled town, and remnants of its fortified past—battlements and a moat—can still ...
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