Convincing locals to get into the wine habit

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Visitors can buy Red Mountain Estate wines at the vineyard, either to take home or to sample on the hillside. (Photo by Hamish McDonald)

HAMISH MCDONALD, Contributing writer

NYAUNGSHWE, Myanmar -- It is an outpost of the wine industry where the terroir rubs against regions with a history of terreur -- the borderlands of Myanmar, where ethnic insurgents and drug lords have been battling a brutal army for decades across landmine-strewn and booby-trapped mountains.

     Now, as international sanctions are lifted and with well-heeled tourists flooding in, two pioneering winemakers are satisfying the desire of foreign visitors for reasonably priced wines while also planting a taste for European-style wines among the locals.

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