Tonight's selection:
Wine: Frisky Zebras Seductive Shiraz, year unknown
Origin: South Africa
Price: $8.95
CC score: 4 of 5 = PFG
Welp... can't find a discernible vintage, and there are a lot of claims on the very adorable label (which, combined with the price, made my purchasing decision for me). I can tell you this: it won a silver in an "international wine challenge" in Vienna in 2011; it is a Fairtrade brokered product; it comes from a "certified carbon neutral" company (I have hives forming); there is some officious looking seal around the screw-top cap which assures me of certified "integrity & sustainability" from a wine and spirit board; the screw-top cap itself says "100% earth friendly lightweight bottle." It also depicts a cute cartoon of a someone petting a bunny, so I guess it was not tested on animals.
The zebra doth protest too much, methinks.
So the Zebra in the glass is one of the driest Shirazes I've ever tasted, but it loses zero dimension. Peppery, yes, as all good Shiraz should be. I think I can make out the chocolate described on the label, but not the yummy/menstrual kind - the bitter, powdered kind people used before cake-mixes were invented. It's round, fills the mouth elegantly, and is fairly delightful.
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| Jian Ghomeshi's memoir makes a nice coaster |
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| This wine will make you affectionate toward rodents. |
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| This wine is really, really, really, really, really, really earth friendly. And overcompensatey. |
