I always feel an electric charge cross my skin when I encounter a wine which lists its variety composition as “others” or “field blend”. It’s an exciting game of wine roulette as sometimes the wine in question will turn out absolutely brilliant and other times, to coin a favorite English phrase of mine, it will be “complete shite”. The reasons behind this dichotomy are of course two fold. In the brilliant camp, you have the fact that this seemingly random blend in a single vineyard was actually intentional and together, […]
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