On Fri, May 27, 2005 at 04:29:40PM -0700, keithw wrote: > > Well, fellow wine snobs, one should also recognize Australian wines! > The better Aussie wines fully equal the better California wines, and > that my friend is SAYING something!
The current buzz is about the New Zealand wines, which have come into their own over the last few years, but are still relatively underpriced. I had a couple of colleagues come into town last week, and was tasked with finding a restaurant with some good Californian wines. We asked the sommelier to find us some local wines our visitor from New York would probably have never sampled before. We ended up with a Sauvignon Blanc from about six miles from the restaurant (which was in Saratoga), and a Pinot Noir from Carmel (around 60 miles to the south). THe restaurant has a 35-page wine list, but the sommelier reckons they sell perhaps 5 bottles of french wine a week (and those are mostly sold on name - Laffitte Rothschild, or Yquem).
