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Back-label wine descriptions: Let the purple prose flow | Uncorked | Wine advice and commentary - wine tastings and events around Dayton, Ohio

Mark Fisher is the author of Uncorked and is the food and dining reporter for the Dayton Daily News.

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By Mark Fisher | Tuesday, July 15, 2008, 07:41 AM

Do you ever get the feeling that folks in the southern hemisphere have, well, different way of doing things?

Check out some of the back-label descriptions of wines from New Zealand and Australia in this piece entitled “Putting wines into words”.

I mean, who wouldn’t want to taste a wine that boasts “wafts of toasted marshmallow, sweet custard pie and freshly snapped cinnamon sticks”?

Fun stuff, mate.

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