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Wine of the Day, No. 112

Wine of the Day, No. 112

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Fredric Koeppel
Feb 26, 2016
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Wine producers in New Zealand carved a niche for sauvignon blanc in the 1990s in an over-the-top style so distinctive that sauvignon blanc wines from California were sometimes described as "New Zealand-like" and, on the other hand, sauvignon blancs from New Zealand that did not conform to type were dubbed "not too New Zealandish."

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