I wanted to share some wonderful wines I had the pleasure of tasting at my new favorite wine shop here, called Vino 100. I went alone, got there early and was the first at my table. In the space of about 25 minutes, I made 6 new wine-loving friends, a wonderful relationship that lasted exactly 2 hours. We exchanged emails but have yet to contact each other since that night.
At any rate, we had South African wines from the western province. Labels included KWV, Boschendale, and Rooderberg. The favorite red of the evening was Boschendale's Cathedral Cellars Shiraz (sorry I don't have the vintage info handy)--it was more on the jammy side of things, not much pepper or spice, but with enough other stuff going on, it wasn't like drinking fruit juice. I'll get back to you on the vintage. I recommend this for large, holiday meals. It's food-friendly and worked really well at our Thanksgiving dinner the other night. It complimented multiple dishes and flavors, and also went well with the turkey.
Ciao
