Boschendal
Shiraz
Western Cape, South Africa
Bottle #363 Grande Syrah from Boschendal, Stellenbosch South Africa. Producing wine from this estate since 1685… let that sink in for a second or two. Amazing. Great Syrah, depth, concentrated, but focused. Dark fruit flavors of plum and black cherry all in fully harmony with spice and fine grained tannins.
Bottle #363 Grande Syrah from Boschendal, Stellenbosch South Africa. Producing wine from this estate since 1685… let that sink in for a second or two. Amazing. Great Syrah, depth, concentrated, but focused. Dark fruit flavors of plum and black cherry all in fully harmony with spice and fine grained tannins.
Jul 13th, 2025Nice, but no punch and a very short finish. Notes of black fruit with some spice and oak, but it doesn't come through as strongly as I was hoping.
Nice, but no punch and a very short finish. Notes of black fruit with some spice and oak, but it doesn't come through as strongly as I was hoping.
Jul 4th, 2021
Sitting in the garden on a nice and warm summer evening with a temperature of 24C (hot for the UK 😊) this is a solid wine to help time pass pleasurably.
Dark fruit aroma that has a medium/strong tannin benefitting from its 14 months' in French oak barrels, it delivers a punchy cherry, spice and hint of tobacco flavour and taste.
Decanted for 2 hours-plus this smoothes out nicely from the first glass straight out the bottle.
The 14% alcohol makes this fun as you can feel it grabbing you from the first sip/gulp.
Tesco @ £9.00.
Sitting in the garden on a nice and warm summer evening with a temperature of 24C (hot for the UK 😊) this is a solid wine to help time pass pleasurably.
Dark fruit aroma that has a medium/strong tannin benefitting from its 14 months' in French oak barrels, it delivers a punchy cherry, spice and hint of tobacco flavour and taste.
Decanted for 2 hours-plus this smoothes out nicely from the first glass straight out the bottle.
The 14% alcohol makes this fun as you can feel it grabbing you from the first sip/gulp.
Tesco @ £9.00.