What’s in a name? Quite a lot, really (NZ)

What’s in a name? Quite a lot, really (NZ)

This week, Deborah Walton-Derry and Peter Morice take a look at two wines named for the tanks they were fermented in, in The Marlborough Express. Malcolm Rees-Francis, winemaker at Rockburn in Central Otago, says the names Spitfire Gewurztraminer and Tigermoth Riesling celebrate the individuality of the wines and one of the people who has worked in the winery – “Doc” Adam Robinson.

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