Manuel Camblor wrote:I won't even go into Australia, or any of those pricier varietally-correct (as long as we're talking varieties of oak) Argentinians and Chileans.
Oh, come on. Most of our crap's not that expensive. Most of the ones that are only got to that price level because of Parker's review - that's hardly a true indication of 'expensive wine'. I'd have thought the nouveau-Bordeaux and cult Cali wines are twice the price of any of the turbo-juice that comes out of McLaren Vale, surely.
Lucky for us, there seems to be a prevailling opinion among the louder voices of US wine criticism that the best reds Australia makes (or almost only decent reds) come from McLaren Vale or Barossa. Which is good, because it helps to keep demand and price pressure off a lot of good wines from other regions. Sure, availability of them ain't great in north America, but you can buy the rest of the world's wines so much cheaper than we can, so it seems only fair!
cheers,
Graeme