 "Man Family Wines Skaapveld Shiraz 2014 (South Africa) has an open, easy style, with soft-edged plum and blackberry fruit, carried by hints of anise. It shows modest toast on the finish")
Good wines tell a story of the land where the grapes were grown and of the winemaker’s skill in turning those grapes into something memorable.
A wonderful anecdote about this comes from Aesop’s fable of The Old Woman and the Wine-Jar. “An old woman found an empty jar which had lately been full of prime old wine and which still retained the fragrant smell of its former contents. She greedily placed it several times to her nose, and drawing it backwards and forwards said, ‘O most delicious! How nice must the Wine itself have been, when it leaves behind in the
