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Saturday, April 30, 2011
Wendouree Label
This is the Wendouree label. No mention of alcohol level. There is no back label nor information around the cork seal. Other bottles look similar. Can anybody explain this? It should not be allowed.
I just checked my 02 Cab Malbecs and they have the ABV reading (13.8%) in really small writing on the far right of the label (you have to turn the wine on its side to read it the right way up).
I am a very interested amateur wine taster and drinker. I have collected wine since 1983 and hold a 1500 bottle wine collection of mainly red Australian wine, but also some wine from France, Italy and other countries. You can contact me on tgirgens@bigpond.net.au.
I score each wine out of 100 points, similar to many other reviewers. This score reflects my perceived objective assessment of the quality of the wine, its purity of fruit, complexity, elegance, structure, length of expression etc. The second score is an amendment, depending on how I personally like the wine: up to three + for a wine I like very much, and three - for a wine I don't like. The +/- score may correlate with the numeric score, but not necessarily so.
2 comments:
I just checked my 02 Cab Malbecs and they have the ABV reading (13.8%) in really small writing on the far right of the label (you have to turn the wine on its side to read it the right way up).
Thank you, Red, you have better eyes than I do. I tried hard to find it. It is indeed written on the side, very hard to read.
For the record, the alcohol level of this wine was 13.3% according to the label.
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