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Tasting wines - a personal experience

Welcome to my personal wine tasting experience!

I have created this site to review various wines I have tasted in the past and will be tasting in the future. Even though I am by no account an experienced wine taster, I will be giving my personal experiences of wines as I find them. I firmly believe that wine should be enjoyable, and should be value for your money. Too many people buy wines at ridiculous prices and then feel obliged to say the wine tastes good (while they fully know they would look stupid if they said it tasted rubbish yet paid so much for it). I believe most of us (99% of humans) have adequate taste buds and will be able to distinguish between something that tastes good and something that is just not worth the money we pay for it.

So, with the above in mind, I have decided to create my own wine tasting site sharing my personal experiences and views about wine. Please don't sue me if you find that I think your wine is rubbish, we all have our own preferences and this site is merely a personal view on what I think is worthwhile drinking and what not.

For the most part, I will be focusing on South African wines, as I believe they are of the best in the world. Naturally, growing up in South Africa has probably biased my taste buds in this direction. You will also find that I really enjoy a few wineries in particular, so will find a lot of varieties of the same wineries in cases where I find more than one of a variety of a certain winery to be pleasant. And even though the lists here are not ALL the wines I have ever tasted or drank, its the only ones I have consciously tasted for the purpose of trying to establish what I can taste.

In general I am more fond of reds, but have recently re-acquired my taste for whites, so will be posting more whites in the near future (YES, I know that actually makes the site name invalid! Ah well...).

Enjoy, and cheers!

PS: Wines that are hyper-linked have already been tasted, while wines listed but not hyper-linked are currently in my cellar but have not been tasted...so keep an eye out for updates! Currently I have 104 wine tastings on the site.

Changes to the site: I will from now on be adding a rating for value for money to all wines as well.

Many people have asked me about the procedure used for wine tasting, so I have added a section on this. Please visit my "Tasting Guide" page for more information...