Read all about Bloodwood in the James Halliday Australian Wine Companion.
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Anenlightened article from Raymond Chan Wine Reviews
Raymond Chan is a highly respected wine advisor in the New Zealand wine scene with over two decades of wine judging, retailing and writing experience. He lives in Wellington, New Zealand with his partner Sue Davies, a wine distributor, who also has around two decades of wine industry experience, and his son Oliver, who is studying architecture.
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I'm often asked how to go about judging wines. Actually, I should rephrase that. I have been asked (twice) how I judge wine. Simply put, the Australian wine show system ranks wines according to personally perceived and eventually, mutually agreed to impressions of quality. However, when there is a bit of foot-stamping and pursed lipped pouting in the ranks of the assembled judges, it is always of enormous benefit to be the head of a panel or ideally, the Chairman (sic) of the show. If those aspirations seem beyond you, try to remember this sure-fire method of judging and you won't go wrong. If the wine is technically OK, true to variety and entered in the correct class, then give it a Bronze. If you feel ever so slightly like drinking a glass of it, give it a Silver, and, if after the barest of hesitation, the whole bottle takes your fancy, give it a Gold. Trophies of course are awarded to those wines for which you would happily forsake your own hard-earned to be the proud owner of a whole case. If all that fails, then you call for De vine intervention.
(Picture supplied by the very devout Susan Moore of Thunder Ridge Wines, Armidale)
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