Anthony Gismondi: There s always time for affordable wines
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The COVID-19 pandemic has confined us to home for almost a year now, leaving many with a thirst to travel as soon as possible.
Today we try to fill the gap by taking you to Europe for less than $20 a day, sort of. The idea is to take you there via a bottle of wine selling for less than $20.
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The wine world has long been carved into two parts: the Old World and the New World. Europe is considered Old World while North and South America, Australia, and South Africa fall under the New World moniker. The New World is catching up to the Old World at light speed, and there is even some evidence the Old World is already pursuing new paths suggesting there is a third world of wine at play we could term the Next World.
Some delicious examples are made by Rebecca Willson, the winemaker at Bremerton wines in Langhorne Creek, South Australia. Her Scottish family heritage is borne out by the names of the wines such as the Selkirk Shiraz which is an excellent Shiraz that has a rich spicy flavour with a hint of pepper and a long, lingering finish that matches well with haggis.
This grape in the Rhone Valley, known as the Syrah here, has a similar lovely complex ripe berry fruit and peppery spice notes with more structure from slightly more obvious tannins.
Look out for wines such as Cotes du Rhone Villages wines that are aromatic and full of flavours of raspberries, blackberries and blueberries on the palate. This is also true for wines such as the Esk Valley Syrah from Hawkes Bay with lingering notes of spicy stewed plums and underlying complexities of dark chocolate, savoury mushrooms and spicy prunes.