A trend of sorts among my fellow sommeliers is sourcing obscure wines and seeing if anyone can figure out what it is they’ve been poured. We have been stumped and surprised by odd – sometimes weird – bottles of wine.
We drop hints as to the wine’s origin, with comments such as, “Can’t you smell the flowers? There are ginger flowers, hibiscus blossoms and white roses,” or, “If it’s old world, don’t you think it could be a little...
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