This secret squirrel is a beauty

I actually Instagrammed this very beauty with the hashtag #secretsquirrel, hoping one day to see it again.

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2015 The Fledge & Co., Katvis Pinot Noir, Western Cape, South Africa (£14.95, Stone, Vine & Sun, 01962-712351, StoneVine.co.uk).

I didn't spot Simon Taylor of Stone, Vine & Sun at last year's Cape Wine expo in Cape Town, but he was definitely there and clearly working very hard! His recent "South Africa: Riding the New Wave" selection of wines is nothing short of inspirational.

We happened to stumble across some of the same wines at this massive biennial event and I am thrilled to report that he has decided to import some of them into the UK for the very first time. Winemaker Leon Coetzee showed me his The Fledge wines from unlabelled sample bottles.

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I actually Instagrammedthis very beauty with the hashtag #secretsquirrel, hoping one day to see it again. Well, "catfish" has arrived and it is a vitally refreshing and intensely rewarding wine, stuffed with wild cherries and parading flair and daring in every molecule.

Buy this wine and also the 2015 The Fledge Syrah (£15.95), a spicy, bright, 13% alcohol stunner, with whiplash tannins and a heavenly seaweedy, black-fruited perfume. Lastly, 2013 Lemberg Lady (£12.95) is a deranged white made from sleek viognier and the quirky Hungarian interloper Hrslevel. Tense, intriguing, fleetingly exotic and then ever so contemplative, this is a wine that will expand your white-wine horizons like no other.

Matthew Jukes is a winner of the International Wine & Spirit Competition's Communicator of the Year (MatthewJukes.com).

Matthew Jukes
Matthew Jukes

Matthew Jukes has worked in the UK wine business for well over three decades and during this time has written 14 wine books.  

Matthew regularly lectures, judges, speaks at wine conferences and runs masterclass tastings for both corporate and private clients all over the world. Matthew is also the creator of his ground-breaking initiative, the One Day Wine School, an indulgent day of tasting and learning first performed in 2006.

He has been the MoneyWeek wine correspondent since 2006 and has written a weekly column for the Daily Mail’s Weekend Magazine since 1999. His four highly-acclaimed, annual wine reports – the Burgundy En Primeur Report, the Bordeaux En Primeur Report, the Piemonte Report and the 100 Best Australian Wines – are published on his website, www.matthewjukes.com.

Matthew is one of the world’s leading experts on Australian wine and, with Brisbane-based wine writer Tyson Stelzer, runs an annual competition in Australia to find ‘The Great Australian Red’.  He was made Honorary Australian of the Year in the UK at the 2012 Australia Day Foundation Gala dinner. 

Matthew is a winner of the International Wine and Spirit Competition's Communicator of the Year Trophy.  His thoughts, recommendations and tastings notes are followed very closely by the wine world at large.

 

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