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How To Select Top Quality Australian Wine
The art of finding those special wine labels can needlessly bring on a mild anxiety attack in many inexperienced wine drinkers as they search for the best Australian wines to serve at home. I have seen it before – it is the wine drinking parallel to a fihs out of water. The plethora of grapes, countless regions, and abundance of labels leaves our shopper flat-lining, sweating and sometimes almost trembling with fear, all of which in an ever increasing world of grapes, wine regions and labels, is completely understandable. So how do you find that killer wine on the shelf? And what makes a wine truly great – grape variety, region or even vintage?
There’s a trick is to understand what a fine wine tastes like. The first element is a wine’s aroma which consists of an array of smells and taste well beyond fruit? Tar, roses, thyme or earth with top wines can display many layers with complex aromas and flavours. A good quality wine should have a rewarding texture and fruit length, and that is not overwhelming but rather has a long lasting flavour that’s experienced after drinking. When drinking a lower quality wine, you note that the flavour disappears as soon as as they are drunk. They leave no lasting impact, and normally fade into the recesses of memory never to be thought of again. Comparitively, more complicated, full-bodied wines can have a lingering taste can last for some time after drinking.
So how do you find these elusive wines? A great wine merchant is an ideal place to start – somewhere with an interesting range of wines and staff who take pleasure in guiding your wine drinking habits according to personal taste. These venues are not always easy to find but worth their weight in gold.
If this fails there is always the option to find some personal favourite wine regions through trial and error. One of the magic aspects of wine is how the area where grapes for a wine are grown has a dramatic impact on how that wine tastes. So every wine from a particular region will taste, at least in part, similar to those from nearby vineyards. You will find particular wine regions will be synonymous for particular grape varieties or two resulting in wonderful wines. Sangiovese and Tuscany, Tempranillo and Rioja, Chardonnay and the Adelaide Hills and Pinot Noir and Martinborough are just a few examples, although there are plenty more. In short, pick wine from from one such region and you will increase your chances of hitting gold.
Last and probably of least importance is the vintage. In countries such as Australia and New Zealand, vintage, or the year a wine is created, is much less of an issue than it might be in France or Italy where the weather is generally much more unrelaible. While there is the odd dog vintage, 2008 Hunter Valley or 2006 Margaret River for reds certainly stand out, most are fairly good and unlikely to disappoint and in good years represent some of the best Australian wines.
When you next find yourself at a loss in the search for a decent wine bottle, try some trusted regions with their best suited grape and you are likely to hit a winner. Some other wine labels worth considering include: Clare Valley and Riesling, Margaret River and Chardonnay, Central Otago and Pinot Noir, Waiheke Island and Cabernet Sauvignon.
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