For the Love of Wine

For the Love of Wine - Dec 12 2021 - Duncan Forsyth


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Kirsten is joined by Duncan Forsyth from Mount Edward winery in Central Otago - a colourful winemaker loving life and regularly taking on new challenges. And along the way raising a few eyebrows. Curtis Marsh, a sommelier and very funny wine writer – also known under the name Wandering Palate, says: "Duncan Forsyth belongs to a wild fermenting gaggle of Central Otago vignerons that have evolved like a Band of Brothers; all to a varying degree they are recalcitrant, insubordinate, revolutionist, ingenious, jocular and witty but in the Neo-Darwinism of the New Zealand wine industry, they are the dynamic – the avant-garde." Duncan reflects on the description and dives into explaning what Central Otago is all about - the wines, the Terrôir, the subregions etc. In 2019, his peers in the Central Otago Winegrowers Association honoured Duncan with the Outstanding Services Award, for “special contribution over many years... for the greater good of the wider industry.”
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