January 2012 | Wine Cellar Plus

Double Blind Shiraz Taste-Off Workshop

Posted on 15th January, by admin in Blog, Tasting Notes, Wine Cellar Workshops. No Comments

With a few new kids on the block cracking massive ratings with their maiden shirazes, we thought it a great idea to taste them off against a few international and local benchmarks. We were 9 tasters (winemakers, critics and pundits) with 9 wines at the Hussar Grill Rondebosch in order to confirm our findings over [...]

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