Oz wines

By Paul Fulford on August 18, 2008 1:15 PM | Permalink

My colleague Laurence McCoy writes with great authority (and no little panache) on the subject of wine in the Food + Drink section of the Birmingham Mail each Thursday. So I'm wary of staggering tipsily into his terrirtory.

But I'm going to have a good old moan nevertheless because I'm becoming weary of Australian wines.

At the cheap end of the market they display about as much grace and composure as an Australian sportsman who's just lost. Which is none at all.

But I find even relatively expensive Oz wines often lack finesse - like the bottle of pinot noir I opened last night.
It wasn't a bad wine, just an unremarkable one.

Truth is, I prefer wines from the Old World to those from Down Under.

And when England win the Ashes next year, rest assured I'll be cracking open a bottle of burgundy to celebrate rather than some overrated Australian red with a novelty name and the alcohol content of rocket fuel.

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2 Comments

Warnie said:

Strewth Big Rog, you're not being kind about our great wines. Didn't realise you were such as connoisseur of fine wines. I've seen you in your local Sainsbury's and you were buying the five bottles for £10 deal

August 19, 2008 5:11 PM

Paul Fulford said:

Five bottles for a tenner? That must have been when I'd invited the Aussie cricket team to dinner.

August 19, 2008 6:52 PM