Other New Zealand Wine Regions We are blessed with a generous selection of wines from the Marlborough wine region of New Zealand. Or to put it another way, we don’t have much of an opportunity to try anything else! 80% of local selections are from Marlborough, and almost every white wine is from that region. […]
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Castilla – La Mancha Wine Region Spain is one of the world’s top three producers of wine. Although many fine wines of good reputation are produced in the country, it lags behind France and Italy (and perhaps others) in the perception of the quality of its products. The region of Castilla – La Mancha has […]
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Italy, Germany, Austria Half the suppliers and almost two-thirds of the wines in Opimian’s most recent catalog are new this year! I usually post my observations (based on my taste preferences) from previous vintages or visits/tastings with suppliers as another source of buying information for Opimian members. With all these new selections, my comments will […]
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Malbec from Argentina is a common item on liquor store shelves. As unremarkable as that is now, just a score of years ago wines from Argentina were not available here, and the Malbec grape was practically unknown. Argentina’s wine industry at that time was just in the process of converting from serving its huge domestic […]
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Steve Delaney
May 25, 2017
New Zealand
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