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the wines that these judges love, even if
Day two we looked at sake presented by
inexperienced, not be rewarded?
Matt Young of Black Market Sake who
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highlighted differing styles by rice type, A beer brewer gushes over a large-framed
production technique, and preferred style of
red, which may be considered a passé style
the producer and the age of the sake itself.
by many in the know. A cheesemaker finds
Fascinating, and we all had different sakes
beauty in an elegant aromatic white that
we liked more than others.
could be considered too lightly veiled to Day three was cheese by
the technically proficient wine taster. Not everyone is after overt flavour or style when it’s just an easy drink to have at home after a hard day. Each morning we would go through palate-training exercises. The point of the exercise was to open us up to new flavours and styles of wine and food. Hopefully we’d be a little more open minded when we hit the judging floor to the wide range of styles we were about to see.
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On day one, I presented wines from my maturing barrels in
I think we saw more beauty than flaws
Tasmania that contained wines made
during the week of judging, which quite
from the same grapes made in completely
often isn’t the case when purely wine
different ways. Our judges didn’t know
professionals pick the eyes out of a flight of
this as I was attempting to help judges
wines. I truly believe that the more diverse
acknowledge and respect differing styles
we keep the Hot 100 on all fronts, the
without any prior insight. From a white
greater the range of wines that inadvertently
wine that had heavy oak influence, to
bubble to the top. We encourage rewarding
a pure and simple style, to an orange
all wine styles as they come, that way, we
skin-fermented rough and ready style.
can best celebrate the wine styles that a
Individuals liked different styles for
broader range of people find most drinkable.
different reasons even though they were from the same grapes.
You be the judge.
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