Normally possessing a 5 year old bottle of wine is a good thing. Less so when it says “drink now or within two years” on the label. That said its held up well enough to drink as a second bottle on a Sunday night, but there’s a definite menacing vinegary edge to it.
Smells of ripe cherries and leather. Earthy yeasty flavours. Beautiful.
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!
