by Jimmy Cocktail
22. August 2011 08:28
Every day at the SWE Conference our lunch was sponsored by someone, usually a wine marketing bureau. One of the days lunches was sponsored by the Wines of South Africa. I had worked with these folks when they were pouring wine here at a DC Wine expo during the spring and I was introduced to some spectacular wines so I was pretty excited to see them at the conference. One of the wines that was available during our lunch was the Mulderbosch Cabernet Sauvignon Rosé.
This excited me for two reasons. First, during the summer, I tend to drink a fair bit of rosé wine. I find them crisp and refreshing and I thoroughly enjoy them both as a sipper and along with food. The second reason I was excited was because I had recently reviewed this wine and hadn’t had a chance to post my review here and I knew that it was a really nice wine.
This wine was presented to me as a blind wine by Ms Cocktail and I really didn’t know what to think of it at the time. Light and fruity, this wine makes a wonderful compliment to a summer picnic or a tasty treat all by itself. It also comes in at the right price, right around $10 per bottle. I’ll give this wine three out of five wine glasses.
Tasting notes:
This is a clear, medium intense salmon colored wine with legs. It has a clean, youthful, medium(-) intense nose displaying aromas of strawberry and grapefruit. It is an off-dry wine with medium acidity, medium alcohol, medium(-) tannin and medium(-) body. It has medium(-) intense flavors of strawberries, red cherries and mineral with a medium(-) length finish. It is a good, inexpensive wine that is ready to drink now but will not improve in the bottle.
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