Chronicle of the Unknown Taster

Aussies Begin to Question High Alcohol Parker Dead Fruit Wines. – It’s about time.

Was this the Australian ideal? A fist-pumping, muscle-bound wine of tremendous brawn but little brain? A fair number of Americans, led by the world’s most influential wine critic Robert Parker, certainly thought so.

Meanwhile, some in England recognised a new Australian physique in which fruit power was a little more restrained, the alcohol lower and less intrusive, the oak more or less subdued. Australians remained ambivalent - for a while.

Now we’re not so ambivalent.