Am I the only person who hates Australian wine?
On Jun 21, 3:08 pm, Ken Blake >
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> On Wed, 20 Jun 2007 20:45:26 -0700, Dee Dee >
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> > On Jun 20, 10:53 pm, Ken Blake >
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> > > On Wed, 20 Jun 2007 15:14:41 -0700, Dee Dee >
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> > > > I know ;-)) Just don't like Australian wines that I've tried.
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> > > Australia, just like other places in the world, makes fine wines and
> > > they make cheap poor wines. And others in between.
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> > > To verify this, I would suggest that you get someone to arrange a
> > > blind tasting for you of decent wines (don't choose cheap ones), in
> > > pairs--one from Australia and the other from elsewhere, each of the
> > > pair made from the same grape. See if you can pick out which of each
> > > pair is from Australia. My guess is that you will not come close to
> > > being able to do this consistently.
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> > > Ken Blake
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> > I agree with you. Because my guess is that I will not come close to
> > being able to do this with wines from Chile & Portugal; etc. etc. I
> > applaud people that can. I've seen experts do taste testing, and I'm
> > no expert. I appreciate your advice, tho. I hear what you're
> > saying.
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> If you "hear what I'm saying," I may not need to add this comment, but
> my point is simply that it doesn't make much sense to say that you
> don't like wines from Australia (or anyplace else) if you are not able
> to identify that a wine is from Australia.
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You win!
Dee
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