TOO YOUNG
EXPERT SAYS AUSTRALIAN WINES REQUIRE MATURING SHIPPED TOO EARLY Mr. H. A. Perkin, a noted London wine expert who is on his way to England after a tour of Canada and the United States, said to-day that Australian wines were too young. If kept longer they would doubtless improve, but at pfesent they were being sold long before they had any real chance of maturing. Mr. Perkin thought there was a freat chance to do something with Australian wines under the British pi'eferences. If Australia did not do it now she never would. The climate of Australia made it unlikely that she could produce wines °f similar character to those of Europo. Maturity. Mr. Perkin thought that wines shoukl be at least two years old bei0i'e they were shipped abroad. They should then be matured in England for the further requisite period, with Ihe exception of white wines. The chief trouble with Australian wines was that they varied too much and it was not possible to rely upon ihem for a uniform standard of quality. Mr. Perkin thought there was a future for Australian grape brandies In England. They would never have jhe finesse of the greatest French . hrandies, but they were very much hetter than much lower grade varielios in Europe.
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Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 1, Issue 185, 30 March 1932, Page 7
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