January 23, 2012
The word “Bourgogne” appears thrice on the almost-impressively dull label of this Marks & Spencer red. What school of logic requires three instances of a word the target audience (even at their most wine-savvy) simply don’t use, I couldn’t say. We have a word for wines like this in English: Burgundy. Marketing a French wine [...]
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January 16, 2012
I don’t remember the vintage of this bottle, and the photograph I took on my phone isn’t detailed enough to remind me. But I suppose the point of any given Jacob’s Creek wine is that the year of bottling, weather conditions during grape growth and whether or not Belgium had a government when the harvesting [...]
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