Australia v the Rest tasting – what we learnt

Here’s the background to the fascinating tasting reported in tasting notes as RSVP – Australian v the Rest of the World.

See also a previous brief report Jaboulet and Trimbach trounced by the likes of Jacobs Creek.

Paul Henry, UK manager of the generic body now known as Wine Australia London recently organised a tasting called RSVP (successive ranges of Riesling, Shiraz, Viognier and Pinot) to address some of the more obvious disappointments and omissions from last year’s Langton’s tasting of Australian classics – see Top Australians put to the test. Langton’s rate only those producers with...