King Tut's Wine Cellar

The mysteries of wine: why do you buy some labels and not others?

One day I found myself bouncing along in a smoke filled dining car on a squealing train straining down a narrow gauge track along the Nile River in Egypt. It came to pass on that day, that I had a chance to taste a couple of local Egyptian wines.

They were from the Nile Delta area where Cleopatra used to sip raucous little red wines made with grapes I c…