There's an excellent wine expert at Selfridges - a young woman - who has helped me before and has a pretty good understanding of what I like. The last time I was there, I spotted a bottle of sparkling wine from Brazil, Miolo Millesime 2006, and had picked it up. When the lady at the shop saw me with it, she shook her head and told me she didn't think I would like it, as it would probably be two sweet and too floral for my taste. So I didn't buy it then.
But curiosity got the better of me, especially since I haven't had a Brazilian sparkling wine before. I was in Selfridges earlier this week, and since the bottle is only about £16, I couldn't help but buy it. And the wine expert (who wasn't there that day!) was right - while I didn't find the wine offensively sweet, it was mustily-floral, leaving a very heavy aftertaste in my mouth that I really didn't enjoy. I'm surprised that so many reviews of this wine on the internet think it's a fruity wine, because I wasn't getting any of that (part of me wonders, too, how many of the reviewers actually tasted it rather than just repeating the company schpiel about the flavours).
So, wonderful wine woman from Selfridges - hats off to you for being able to accurately describe the wine and for knowing that I wouldn't like it. Next time I won't be so driven by my curiosity and will only buy what you tell me to : )
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