I was terrified of tasting this wine as it was a gift from my mother in law, who told me in no uncertain terms that it was both amazing and expensive. Fortunately it more than lives up to the hype. No idea what a Blanc Fumé is (white fumes?), but it has a beautiful perfume […]
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I am not a wine expert. I am not in the wine industry. I can get a bit pretentious when describing wine sometimes, and other times I can't think of a word to describe what I'm tasting. I do love wine, drink a lot of it, live in the Western Cape of South Africa and visit a lot of wine farms though.
Hopefully this site will help strangers to SA wine pick a good bottle over a bad one, and visit the better wine farms that I've enjoyed. At worst, at least I will be able to use it to remember what is was I was drinking last night!