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Blends including: Cabernet Franc (pictured), Merlot, Shiraz, Pinotage and much much more. |
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Sauvignon Blanc is at its most fragrant and fresh in cooler climates where cut-grass, nettles, elderflower, blackcurrant leaf and gooseberries are the key flavours with minerally, zesty, flinty undertones. Depending on ripeness levels it ranges from green bean, tinned pea and asparagus flavours and the riper, more tropical characters of grapefruit, guava, passion fruit and mango. |
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Chardonnay ranges in quality from bland to intense and in style from oaked to unoaked and from minerally, unoaked, lean, bone dry Chablis style to the richer, classically hazelnutty intense and dry. In the New World, Chardonnay varies from the melon, apple and grapefruit cool climate styles to more tropical fruit styles with flavours of peach, mango, lime and pineapple. As a non-aromatic variety, its affinity with oak brings both, a textured, buttery roundness as well as a smoky, toasty, clove and cinnamon-spice and nutty features. |
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These grapes produce dark red wines with memorable aromas which can be smoky, floral, peppery, minty or spicy and often linked to a kind of medicinal or creosote-like character. Cool climates bring out the mint, pepperiness and the spice in the Syrah, while the warmer it gets the more it changes from raspberry to blackberry, becoming chocolatey and, with age, tarry and gamey. |
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Covers a wide spectrum of aromas and flavours. It tends towards herbaceousness when not fully ripe with capsicum and grassy undertones, but as it ripens it tends towards the flavour of blackcurrant and, when very concentrated cassis. Sometimes you can spot mint or eucalyptus. Its affinity with oak lends secondary characters with a range of vanilla, cedar, sandalwood, tobacco, coffee and spicy notes. |
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The soft texture of the Merlot Grape helps to give it a deliciously plummy, almost fruitcake-like flavour and a mellow smoothness which makes it more approachable than its sister grape, the Cabernet Sauvignon. Like Cabernet it can be a little grassy and bell-pepper-like from cool climate regions and it develops blackcurrant, blackberry, chocolate and spice-like characters when fully ripe. |
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Full of floral and honeyed aromas and quince and apple-like flavours with good zippy acidity. When cool-fermented as in so many instances in South Africa, it can be quite peardroppy, becoming more peachy in fuller dry whites. With botrytis development in the grapes, it becomes rich in barley sugar and honeyed characters, particularly in the luscious wines of the Loire Valley. |
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A difficult grape to grow and equally hard to make. The Pinotage Grape comes in a range of red wine styles from simple everyday glugger to the more serious structured reds. It is known for its characteristic burnt rubber character which most growers try to eliminate, and, when successful, produce a wine with a range of plum, cherry, blackberry and banana flavours. With oak cask maturation, it can become smoky and spicy. |
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A Rosé (Italian: Rosato) is a type of wine that has some of the color typical of a red wine, but only enough to turn it pink. The pink color can range from a pale orange to a vivid near-purple, depending on the grapes and time spent on the skins.
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Blends including: Semillon (pictured), Sauvignon Blanc, Chenin Blanc and more... |
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A small selection of imported wines are always available in the shop for those of us who like to challenge our palates every now-and-again. |
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Including Colombard, Riesling,Pinot Grigio (pictured), Semillon, Viognier, Gewurtztraminer, Bukettraube etc. |
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One of the most sensuously fragrant red grapes in the world with a variety of scented aromas based on red berry characters closest to raspberry and strawberry, and often tingled with incense and cola-like spice. It can be a little minty and vegetal but when ripe usually tastes of raspberry as well as cherry and, when exotic, loganberry, mulberry and fraise fu bois. If overripe, it becomes jammy. As it matures in bottle, it often develops silky textures and alluring overtones of truffles, game and leather. |
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Including cultivars like: Zinfandel, Malbec (pictured), Gamay Noir, Sangiovese etc. |