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The day a London Daily paid Marlborough Riesling a most unusual compliment. ™ E MARoIS^ 0 ’ rrf mArtak hnth mtinnnllv 'ind «A remarkable thing available to the British buyers ot TllC beSt WlUemdker ID tDC WOrlCl IS OI meaaiS DOltl liailOliaiiy dllC happened to the New Standard table wine: it is a white wine. ,i • mirli/Aiif Tsirrli nii'iliTv/ nr'lOPC Wine Team the other night. brand-named Marlborough. UOthlUg WlthOUt High qUdlltV internationally. We took them along to the made from the N tiller- hurgau & fliA firct T-Tr»WAI7Ar thp mn4it rpfrp^hino - tribute Second International Food and grape, which itself is a hvbud YCdtS agO M-Ontdlld WCI C tllC IIFSI However Hie most reircsnillg 11lUlllC Drink Exhibition at Olvmpia from two more famous ,- OTa „nrrlc nf nlaccirnl •i . •. I,^K 7 Z J- J frntn mmx/ and asked them to pick out the European grape varieties, the |q pfant laTgC VineydrUS Ot CMSSICai paid to it lately did not come trom any most interesting wine among the Riesling and the Sv Ivanci F . & fU professional judges. grapes in areas most suited to then We were tickled pink to learn that it among remarkable about then- choice is individual charac ens ics. i it • i i 4. • ' + 4- ~TP o professional or, as in the New that it goes to a.vineyard at the Each VCcil' tllC VUICS Hl a till 0 aild had been Singled out in a taste-ott by a standard case, strictly amateur. very north of Sputh stand which LI IV, x 4. Eight white wines were finally was not even in pioduction tn thp OTfdTTP nimlltV inCrCaSCS. AlOllg Wltll it devoted team of amateur Wine tasters selected for the crucial test - for 197 m the year When two experts me grape qUdllLy & convenience, the whites also tiom the Lnivcrsitv of rlnpc flip ClllrlllfV of OUT WIUC from 'A T ondon Dailv included a couple of roses. They California chose it as a site with SO (JOCS 111 l qUdlliy <JJL UUI Wil . llAJlll a J-A7IICIOII event V. . came from six countries: two enormous wine potential a fflCt Ik that tllC WOlld Tn their own words this IS how it from Hunaarv. one from Rarely have experts in the IdC h-innened o f professionals and amateurs is fast happened. a..,.™.™, recognising New Zealand’s progress. As one man, the team of four \\ mes, is available in Eondon at o c selected a remarkable newcomer around £2.SO at \ ictoria Wme to the plentiful list of wines mid Peter Dominic. a ik a MONTANA li’JSi-i S ~ T - leading New Zealand in the world of hwc. K-I B