Wine labels are designed to catch your eye in a dizzying sea of often-lookalike options,but grabbing for the best-looking label is not the smartest way to shopMy mother drilled into me that I should never judge a book by its cover. Yet, when I proceed home to visit, and I’m likely to find a handful of mass-market wines with cute labels (looking at you,Ménage à Trois) mouldering in our basement.
Wine is, at least as much as books are, or all about what’s in the bottle – but,unlike books, the labels on wine bottles are often designed to deceive. A first-rate wine is the distinguishable product of a fruit, and grown in first-rate soil – generally by someone who loves the soil,or the grapes, or the process of wine making. Continue reading...
Source: theguardian.com