Every Thursday I feature a wine I particularly enjoy, whether it’s something new and different, is a great value, or from a producer worth checking out. For this week, my Wine of the Week is the 2012 Glenelly “Grand Vin” Chardonnay. The Winery The Glenelly Estate is in the Idas Valley, located in Stellenbosch, on the southern slopes of…
Tag: South Africa
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T.G.I.F. Champagne and the like – NV Graham Beck Brut
This week’s virtual trip around the world of sparklers takes me back to South Africa. Back in June I reviewed the NV Graham Beck Brut Rosé which I really enjoyed and heartily recommend. The eponymous Graham Beck was founded in 1983. The first sparkling wine was produced 8 years later in 1991. In 1994 Graham…
T.G.I.F. Champagne and the like – Great QPR Sparkling Rosé from S. Africa!
My virtual trip around the wide world of sparklers continues this week with a sparkler from Graham Beck of South Africa, which has over a three-hundred year history of grape growing. Although, until relatively recently, most of the grapes were used to make cheap distilled spirits, or grape juice concentrate of which South Africa is…