Questioning The Taste Of Fairtrade Wine

While the Fairtrade wine movement is ripe with merits, The Telegraph argues the taste of Fairtrade bottles are often lacking. Many of these wines, from cooperative regions of Argentina and Chile, are disadvantaged because of the grapes, wine critic Victoria Moore says.

"Good grapes need decent vineyard sites and, to be blunt, those in the most need are usually working the worst land," Moore writes.

Luckily, Moore deciphers some of the better Fairtrade bottles: Co-operative Fairtrade Chenin Blanc Colombard 2011 South Africa, and Los Unidos Fairtrade Carmenère Cabernet Franc 2010 Chile.

Granted the Fairtrade logo allots workers fair wages for their labor and the politics and benefits are worthwhile, but drinkers will have to decide whether politics are more important than taste.

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