Best before
Drink now until 2029
Serving advice
Serve at 18-20°C. Open/Decant 1-2 hours before serving
Food match
I would suggest barbecue, especially spare ribs and/or braised beef. Leaner red meat, stew, and mildly spicy foods. Chicken, especially barbecued and braised as well as duck.
Stellenbosch
South Africa
Blend
Syrah Shiraz
13.5%
ABV
Wine profile
It’s a modern big red
Full-bodied and brimming with jammy fruit, texture from tannins (the stuff in grape skins and seed) and hints of smoke and spice (all the good stuff), these wines have everything. Great for pairing with food with big flavours, and impressing your mates.
Look out for other big powerful reds like Shiraz, Zinfandel, Appassimento and erm… more Shiraz.
About the wine
Kobie and Faisal’s ultra smooth and decadent Shiraz is the ultimate overachiever.
Yet again, Kobie and Faisal have managed to bottle up a seriously stylish South African red that over delivers on quality and comes in at a price that will put a big old smile on your face.
With a proud tradition of making exceptional Shiraz, Kobie and Faisal combine the hallmark power and full-bodied fruitiness of South African Shiraz with a surprising elegance and finesse that you’d only expect to find in a Rhone Syrah. You quite literally get the best of both worlds.
A brooding ruby red in colour with an intriguing nose full of bright red cherries, this is a wine that simply blossoms on the palate. Starting with black berry fruit flavours, layered with peppery spice and sweet caramel, it slowly opens up to reveal an elegant spice that leads the way to a fabulous long finish.
Meet the winemaker
Kobie and Faisal
Kobie was head winemaker at South Africa’s ancient Spier winery, with the oldest wine cellar in the land. Faisal was the business brains that transformed Spier into the nation’s most medalled winery in the 1990s.
They bought a vineyard right next door to Spier, and for years sold them their grapes, which went into Spier’s top-of-the-range boutique wines.
Angel backing now means they use their own grapes to make a range of game-changing wines that have become cult classics at Naked. If you like trying new wines that make you go, ‘where has this been all my life?’, you’ll love Kobie & Faisal.
Alergens
UNITED KINGDOM
Buy via Naked Wines UK
SOUTH AFRICA
Cellar Door: Wines available, by appointment only, from Oneiric Winery,
76 Highlands Rd, Elgin, 718.
071 4819560