My neighbor gave me a bottle for Christmas.
I love the stuff. This is a fun little wine from South Africa.
The wine is good, and there is a lot of Pinotage in the red blend. I've developed a taste for the earth, rubber and smoke flavours you often find with Pinotage. Charles Back and the witty folks at Fairview have come up with many other creative wine titles. Back has continued to have fun with the naming of each wine – and the design of each individual ‘olde worlde’ style label, with its endless witty allusions to the world of wine and goats! Besides additions to the family of Goats do Roam, there came the Goat Roti, then a pair of Goats do Roam in Villages. Wine lovers with a sense of discernment matched only by their sense of humour may look forward to soon meeting the Bored Doe, Goat Door and the bawdy… but we’ll leave it there for the moment.
PS The story goes that there was, originally, one particular goat, identified as the ringleader of that first, adventurous group of ruminants. This ‘black sheep’ of the herd was immortalised as the so-called Goat d’Afrique… this intrepid creature’s subsequent wanderings have been consigned to distant memory, growing increasingly hazy over time…
I am going to try this one next. The white is blended from a mixture of Chenin Blanc, Clairette Blanche, and Riesling (with a touch of Viognier and Grenache Blanc to keep it interesting), this is suppose to be a great little summertime sipper. There’s no wood to be found, but lots of fruit (peaches and green grapes) along with some interesting hints of spice.
