In contrast, New World wines from Australia, New Zealand, the Americas and South Africa are more fruit forward, are made in very expressive styles and are drinkable without needing to age very long.

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But it has no truck with the "fruit-forward" winemaking approach of many successful Australian exporters.

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Then, owing to winemaking traditions, wines from the Old World tend to be more earth and spice driven, whereas a New World wine would be more fruit-forward.

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His confederation includes three wineries that make luscious, fruit-forward elixirs.

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The current selection includes the Venezuelan Rio Caribe, which Mr. Masonis described as tasting like brownie batter, the fruit-forward signature Ambanja from Madagascar and the bolder Elvesia from the Dominican Republic, with notes of dried plum.

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"I also need to know that the fruit is so forward that the wine is expressive, that the wine has so much to say that at 35, 000 feet I can still smell it, " he adds.

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