Zonnebloem Limited Edition Cabernet Sauvignon 1995
We think we must have bought this one at the International Wine and Food Festival at the Banff Springs Hotel in 1997, the year South African wines were featured. (It was also more or less our honeymoon.) At the age of 10 years, the wine is very brown, with a smokey, "cigar box" bouquet. It's still full-bodied, with cocnetrated berry flavors and a lovely lingering aftertaste. We found it perfectly balanced, but just possibly on the downhill side of its prime. It went well with spaghetti with a rich, vegetable-and-spices-full tomato sauce. Our rating out of 10: 7.5.
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