2005 Adoro Red, South Africa (£19.99, Hanford Wines, 020-7221 9614, www.handford.net; Real Wine Company, 01753-664190, email info@therealwineco.co.uk; Soho Wine Supply, 020-7436 9736, www.sohowine.co.uk; Villeneuve Wines, 01721-722500, www.villeneuvewines.com). In celebration of the start of the World Cup in South Africa, I have found you three wines from one of my favourite wine-makers in the country.
Ian Naud is a magician and he possesses one of the cheekiest smiles in the business. He is a specialist in 'layering' flavour. His interest is in sourcing grapes from different vineyards and then, ignoring their variety or provenance and concentrating solely on flavour and aroma, he sets about building a wine from the bottom up, blending the raw materials incrementally.
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