Wine of the Week

25 August 2003

2000 Shiraz Graham Beck, Coastal Region, South Africa: £6.99 Waitrose

South Africa hasn’t been making Shiraz for very long, but it has taken to it like a duck to water. At this price point and below they’re beating the Aussies at their own game of providing rich, tasty, no-frills crowd-pleasers. This has a warm, come-hither smell of toffee, plums and chocolate, and that’s pretty much what you get in the mouth too, with a bit more smoke and some sweet-sour cherry resembling a Tunes cough sweet.

Taken from Oz Clarke's Wine Buying Guide 2003

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