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It’s not PC to call red wines made in the style of Bordeaux, claret, but hell, claret is not a French word, and New Zealand’s wine culture is as much a product of British wine drinking and British wine culture as is our taste for French wine styles. So damn PC, and let’s call the stuff claret; it certainly makes more sense than cabernet/merlot/cabernet franc/malbec, which is about as evocative of the elegance and sophistication of these wines as a shopping list.