Here's one for the ABCs

IF YOU want one example that shows that us folk are pretty weird even at the best of times, just consider how often our choice of wine is based solely on the grape variety in it. It’s nuts.

Here's one for the ABCs

Any one grape can be represented in so many different ways that while you're ordering your Chardonnay you may as well ask the waiter how long is a piece of string, and pay corkage for the pleasure.

Just consider the wine world's two most popular (or common) grapes at their worst: it might just be a choice between being clobbered by a fat-arsed bloke in a duffel coat (Chardonnay) or slashed by the piercing acid burn of sauvignon blanc...

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