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Blind
tasting can be a risky business but even more so when
you are in the company of a winemaker and you know that
one of their wines is in the line up! That was the situation
that presented itself whilst on a recent visit to Stella
Bella wines in Margaret River. Janice Mcdonald, eager
to check out the competition, lined up an array of competitor
wines for the new Skuttlebutt range and we set about
sorting the wheat from the chaff. True to form, I was
my usual diplomatic self and declared a couple of the
wines as abysmal, a few pretty average and a couple
were excellent. Only after I had uttered these words
did I consider what might happen if one of Janice's
wines was one that I had damned!
I needn't have worried as it happened - though I won't
of course mention the names of the damned wines, I'm
happy to reveal that the wine I rated highest (genuinely
blind) was Skuttlebutt white 2005. A ringing endorsement
for Janice's ability to turn out cracking, truly characterful
wines at all price levels and styles.
So,
confident in the quality of the wines, we'll be launching
them in February and will have all three wines, red,
white and rose available throughout the year. We'll
be backing this up with point of sale material for independent
retailers and a fantastic Riedel glass promo for volume
on-trade customers. Why not ask your sales manager about
how you could get your hands on the funky new Riedel
"O" wine tumblers?
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