What Makes a Good Wine?

People don’t tend to wax lyrical about country wines nearly as much as they do about wines made from grapes. There aren’t thousands of experts enthusing over why one vintage of pineapple is better than another, or whether each variety of rhubarb is in or out of fashion. So how do we know if our wines will be any good? For starters, it’s important to emphasize that we’re not trying to recreate wines with familiar grape flavours – elderberries will taste of elderberries, not Shiraz grapes – and some wines will have much less ‘vinous’ qualities than others. So throw your preconceptions out of the window and treat each wine as a new flavour experience… if you enjoy the resulting beverage, then it’s officially good!