All those zillions of sauvignon blancs! — that’s what I dispiritedly thought at my local supermarket this week and wondered how people choose one.
<b>Tim James</b> ventures that all South African wine producers aspire to the condition of Kanonkop.
Excelsior wines are designed to attract those wary of character and interest, wanting easy gratification.
It’s hard nowadays to realise how unimportant grape varieties were to drinkers a century ago when the Europeans had amonopoly of top-end stuff.
The cynical wine producer sets a price so excessively above his wine’s value that he’s clearly strategising beyond mere sales.