Delas Freres Ventoux Shiraz

Delas Freres Ventoux ShirazIts colour is a deep ruby red, showing garnet reflections while young. With its predominately berry fruit bouquet, this wine shows the full aromatic power of these two noble grape varieties whilst retaining the freshness imparted by well controlled wine making.

Although Ruinart is best known for their vintage Blanc de Blancs

Close proximity to False Bay ensures cooling breezes in the warm summer months

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for this reason we know that they express the purity

A century on

to reappear later in the mouth

prolonging the growing season and allowing the grapes to fully ripen

This is a million miles away from the Fiascos of the 1970s and '80s

Only the juices from first pressing – the cuvées - are used

sloped vineyards in Getaria

The wine received occasional lees stirring and underwent a complete malolactic fermentation

Kevin Judd is also New Zealand's finest wine photographer and has recently published a book 'The Landscape of New Zealand Wine'