My Wife came home with this.

It was discounted to £5.29 on spcial offer to 24th November or so.

It states Cape of Good Hope on the bottle label, something that many people may associate with Ellen Macarthur, when she made her record breaking and heroic sail around the world in the Vendee Globe, and enters the huge seas and perilous waters of the southern ocean.

Cape of Good Hope has new vineyards - look up planting info in the last 2 decades to find out.

The wine is sauvignon blanc, Acl is only 12% which is good and refreshing, the taste is ripe grapefruit (pink and ordinary mix), the finish is vaguely pithy, but with an almost almond marzipan note (faint), and then stops quite abruptly. The wine is better the next day, and better chilled down to nomal fridge temp. Not bad actually, but dissapointing on 1st opening at cellar temp. It is neither tart nor is it racey. Quite fresh and very young.

Versus JE'07 for £6.99, no contest. Concentration and dimension just aren't there.

At the price above, it is quite pleasant, light and versatile.
Energy saving bottle weight, Rugby sponsorship of the British and Irish Lions.

That's it.

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Duncan

This mob confuses me. There is a "simple" range eg FC Red, then a "First Selection" range which are blends, then your "Limited Release" being varietal. The also have a "Winemakers" range, no idea what that is. The bottles/labels are very similar to my mind.

Kumala do something similar, as do others.

Same wine, slightly different quantities of components.

I'm not saying anything.

Oh no.

If I was going to say something i'd probably say that if my wife came home with a bottle of this i'd lock her in the shed.

For a month.

But i'm not saying anything.

Looks like you're doing all the cooking !

At the price above, it is quite pleasant, light and versatile

If I re-phrase that. I am feeling generous At the price, it is not unpleasant on the 2nd day, and well chilled would that be OK

Kumala mix / or cape reds are truly diabolical - no one has yet ventured in the door with a Kumala white - thanks be to G.

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Duncan