Blanding of Wine

Regarding matters of taste, there is no debate.
Blanding of Wine
The same wine will leave a different impression on people due to personal taste. karelnoppe/Shutterstock
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After I recently recommended a New Zealand sauvignon blanc here, a reader emailed me to say he had tried and disliked the wine. He said it smelled like asparagus.

I replied that the wine was supposed to smell that way, and that it was consistent with sauvignon blanc from that southern-hemisphere, two-island nation.

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