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Article: Wine Kattie Rosser warms to a a choice of New Zealand reds
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- The Sunday Herald
- Article date:
- October 17, 2004
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Blind tasting is vital. Without labels and implications, a wine is
stripped bare and speaks only to the senses. It's also a handy way to
irritate wine buffs. As they struggle to determine the vintage, grape
varieties and region it becomes a childish but amusing exercise. I
picked on Toby Owen (sales executive for Corney & Barrow, Ayr) for a
blind tasting of New Zealand reds.
When it comes to taste in wine, Owen and I are complete opposites
and can seldom agree. Personal taste does not enter in to an
assessment of quality, however, and we arrive predictably at the same
conclusion for these. Although New Zealand is known and loved for its
white wines, the reds are very intriguing and can ...