Yesterday’s wine tasting in Napier. Including superb wine created from Italian Sangiovese grapes by Skipskop Wines from Napier.
Yesterday’s wine tasting in Napier. Including superb wine created from Italian Sangiovese grapes by Skipskop Wines from Napier.
It’s not in the known wine guide books but in Napier, Western Cape, South Africa, there are a bunch of people creating world class wines of grapes growing in Klein Karoo and Napier terroirs. Production of around 8000 bottles per year distributed on a global scale to collectors and connaisseurs.
From Wikipedia: “Mourvèdre (also known as Mataró or Monastrell) is a red wine grape variety that is grown in many regions around the world including the Rhône and Provence regions of France, the Valencia and Jumilla denominaciones de origen of Spain”. Yesterday we were at Fraai Uitzicht 1798 in Robertson, one of the few cellars …
De Wetshof and Zandvliet are a few of the wine houses worthwhile for the connaisseur to visit in the Robertson Wine Valley (others are Fraai Uitzicht 1798, Graham Beck and Springfield).
Skipskop Petit Verdot from Napier in South Africa is a surprising great (desert) wine with flavours that still indulge your taste buds long after you finished your glass … If this does not say anything about the quality … (etc.) … ?
Sculpture of Wil Botha at Creation Wines between Hermanus/Sandbaai and Caledon in the Western Cape, South Africa.
(Cellar shoot at Creation Wines in the Hemel en Aarde Vallei between Hermanus and Caledon, Western Cape, South Africa)