Trentham Estate was set to launch its 2009 vintage of an emerging Spanish white wine variety in June this year, however, those plans were ditched when it was discovered the wine was not what it was supposed to be.

Recent DNA tests showed the increasingly popular Spanish wine albarino was in fact the virtually unheard of French variety savagnin blanc.

The Spanish variety was seen as Australia’s answer to the successful New Zealand-produced sauvignon blanc that had flooded the market.

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