The Unexpurgated Wine Code

The Unexpurgated Wine Code

unexpurgated (adjective); (of a text) complete and containing all the original material; uncensored.

The Unexpurgated Wine Code offers a set of wine tasting notes to showcase the many emotions that a humble glass of wine may invoke. Some are serious, some are amusing and some are just plain ridiculous. Each note is presented as a Wine Code Breaker as if to impart an answer to the bigger puzzle that is wine.


Wine Code Breaker #410

2021 Eden Road The Long Road Chardonnay, Tumbarumba, New South Wales There is a Latin saying, in vino veritas. In wine, there is truth. Of course in too much wine, there is ruin. Too little, and there is a riot. This is precisely what “International Stab Someone in the Back Day” advocates. Not heard of…

Wine Code Breaker #409

2022 Pewsey Vale Riesling, Eden Valley, South Australia Australia’s early economy was said to have ridden on the sheep’s back. John Macarthur is credited as the first to introduce the merino breed that led to the boom on the back of wool. What is less known is that in 1847, Riesling cuttings from his Camden…


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