Best's wines and the 1991 vintage
10 Oct 2004 by JR
David Schildknecht, US: I have long loved Best's wines (see Australian cellar candidates ), which were among the first Aussie libations I ever sold. I can remember using white-out to make the newly requisite label change from "Hermitage" to BATF-accepted " Shiraz " and for the first time utilizing on an official US label approval the utterly absurd but now time-honoured distinction between "back" and "front" labels! Sadly, ole' Viv is evidently not keen on having a US...

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