Weekend wine with Blake Creedon

SOMETIMES you do have to suppress a giggle at the flowery language used to describe wine — the cherries, roses and truffles, let alone the rubber, farmyards and even cat’s pee — which are fairly commonly used to describe wines.

But it does serve a purpose.

Imagine trying to describe a colour. A shade of red, for instance, you could describe as crimson, ruby, scarlet, cherry, fuchsia, rose ... Or if it’s hair, auburn, copper, and just ‘red’.