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meljones
PostPosted: Fri Jan 07, 2011 10:45 am 
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£12.99/10.39
Stellenbosch

Green peppery nose with some tinned asparagus.  Asparagus taste with lemon acidity and tinned asparagus on the finish.  Sorry to be quite so culinary

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I fainted just reading this.

Gk's probably bought a case..
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If we accept that blackcurrant leaf is the classic Marlborough flavour and asparagus the classic flavour for South Africa then one thing SA has over NZ is that a very high percentage of SA'n sb priced betweeb £5 and £8 is correct in terms of it's flavour. Obviously the more you pay ( in most cases ) the less acidic the wines will be but flavour wise SA is nearly always spot on.

NZ however is almost totally devoid of classic wines between £5 and £8.

Especially now that the Estate Reserve at the CoOp has officially been declared ( by me ) as a myth.

If only I liked asparagus on a sb..........
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There's also aging to consider.

NZ SB is mostly produced in a style to be consumed young and fresh. I find NZ SB that has a bit of bottle age (at least eighteen months) begins to develop the asparagus flavours, poor examples go all ‘sherbety’.

SA SB is a bit more risqué and not so predictable.

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Risque or Risky. How do you get acute accents on my website?

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é is Right-hand Alt (Alt Gr) + e

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B, is that you in your avatar or two jags prescot?

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B, is that you, full stop.

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NO, period. However, I wouldn't mind his position, and I thought all you wine experts might recognise the fellow. Teeeeeny clue in the bi-line.

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A loud American !

Is it Mr Potato Head the head of the Blossom Hill Wine Co.

Seen here with his favourite white zin

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Well..."head" and "zin" are good.

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He reminds me of a certain Star Wars character.

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It's Charles Shaw of the Bronco Winery. Known as Two Buck Chuck for his $1.99 bottles. Over 30,000 acres and a capacity for more than 50 million gallons p.a. Was featured on O & J

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Oz & James on DAVE 02.30 FRI - repeat of the episode which visited this fine fellow.

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