NZ's new crop, incl sweet wines

As heralded in NZ sweet wines at last, New Zealand Winegrowers held their annual generic tasting in London on 12 Jan. Having buried my nose in some rather lovely German stickies the day before, I was looking forward to what New Zealand had to offer for their sweet overture. My first overall impression was that the sweet wine samples were served too cold (icy in some cases), which perhaps did not show some wines off to their best advantage. The second impression was that although most the of the sweeties were very enjoyable and well made, there were only...