Best before
Drink now to 2026
Serving advice
Serve at 16-18°C. Open/Decant 1 hour before serving
Food match
Italian cuisine will suit this wine perfectly. Dishes like spaghetti and meatballs, Fettuccine Alfredo, pizza, risotto and Lasagne
Stellenbosch
South Africa
Blend
Smooth Red
13.5%
ABV
Wine profile
It’s a modern smooth red
Opulent, rich reds with a nice smooth and satisfying finish. These wines come from hot places where the winemakers know how to make their wines silky smooth using oak. Rioja is the gold standard here, along with Malbec, Chianti, Pinotage and Portuguese reds.
About the wine
Think Chianti and then some.
Kobie and Faisal take the Sangiovese grape and turbo-charge it with SA sunshine and love.
Taste Super Tuscan wine at supermarket prices – this Sangiovese is a luscious, rich and smooth Afro-Italian monster.
This wine is made in seriously small batches, so nab some while you can.
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