Here’s to Wine Wednesdays! - Head for northern Joburg and you may just discover an oenophilic experience reminiscent of a spell in Stellenbosch.
. Voted as one of the 100 World’s Best Vineyards in 2021, they offer a tasting of the Spier Creative Block premium wine range, just the remedy for that bout of Sunday indecision.
Spier took it a step further, recognising the synergy between its wine blending process and the creation of the artworks, naming its blended wine range after the project. These are the award-winning Creative Block 2, 3 and 5 wines, available at the Spier Wine Experience at the Indaba Hotel. I met Katleho Maunye for my Creative Block Tasting who said that each wine would be paired with a chocolate crafted by a top Cape chocolatier. We started with a glass of the Spier Cap Classique Brut 2018. Creative Block 2, a Bordeaux-style blend featuring the sauvignon blanc and sémillon varietals with a small portion of the sémillon fermented in French oak barrels. This adds a dash of complexity to a herbaceous blend and left me with a creamy, buttery feel on the palate.
Creative Block 5 saw a blend of cabernet sauvignon, merlot, cabernet Franc, petit verdot and malbec. The merlot worked well to tone down the cabernet sauvignon, known to be a rather full-bodied and expressive varietal, to deliver a blend I could picture myself enjoying on a mid-winter Sunday afternoon next to a fire with a good book.
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