Drink deeply (NZ)

The reputation of any wine or winery cannot and should not be based on just a couple of outstanding wines. Which is the danger in this age of fads and fancies and something called social networking which can turn wines and the people who make them into celebrities of a sort, maybe not quite overnight, but certainly before the reputation of either have really been put to the test. Hence the decision taken by Matthew Jukes and Tyson Stelzer when they were devising the Great New Zealand Pinot Noir Classification to base it on an average assessment of the five most recent vintages, writes Warren Barton in The Southland Times.