This was one of many bottles of wine which my husband and I accumulated over Christmas as gifts from various friends and family. They know we like and drink red wine and therefore we had quite a few bottles bequeathed over the festive period - not that we are complaining. I generally do like a decent Shiraz although in general I am not a big fan of South African wines, we tend to drink a lot of Spanish, Italian and Australian red wine in our house and wines from SA are not my forte in terms of knowledge or experience, but we gave this a go with an aubergine curry the other night and were pretty impressed. The label claims summer fruits and chocolate ...  Read the complete review

When it comes to wine I have to admit to knowing nothing really about the stuff. I'm not a huge fan of it, particulary of a red wine but I purchased this just before Christmas for my Step Father to take with me for the festivities but it never got consumed because he had so much alcohol already in the house and so I held on to it and decided one night with a meal and a film I would try it out, which happened to be the other night. The bottle is dark green and glass with a screw on/off black cap to the top of it and it has a purple and white label to the front of it and on that we are told that it is 'Fine Wine Of South Africa', Arniston Bay, Shiraz, 2009. On ...  Read the complete review