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Harpers wine trade weekly furthermore reports that Damian Martin who sits on the board of the Marlborough Wine Research Centre of Auckland University reckons that Britain’s professional wine buyers are denying the British wine drinking public access to the wide range of styles of Marlborough Sauvignon Blanc available by so rigidly sticking to the grassy aromatic style when in fact, he claims, consumers might well prefer riper, richer styles. Tim How, md of Majestic Wine Warehouses, robustly refutes this, maintaining that it’s the grassy style that all his buyers (and by implication his customers) want.