Grey 150

Last night, PK, Louis and I had a bottle of Grey High School's 150 anniversary wine, made at Yonder Hill in Stellenbosch. There is a quite a story to this eventful wine (which tastes a lot like Rust en Vrede's Merlot by the way).

The wine went on sale the weekend Grey got beaten at home by Paul Roos, and the people of Bloemfontein lost their appetite for Stellebosch, leaving a lot of bottles of this lovely wine all over the show.

The moral of the story is really: don't stop buying a good wine, even if your affinity for the brand has lost some of its lustre; that doesn't just go for school and special labellings - I think particularly of Blaawklippen who for me dilute the living hell of their brand by bottling white wines not worthy of the name wine, which should be relegated to the papsak; those wines were my first into to Blaawklippen and subsequently I struggle to enjoy their other wines because I have this gnawing feeling in the back of my head that there good wine is simply a mask for the swill that they put in their cheaper wines.

Brand loyalty is one thing, but drinking Aussie wine is another entirely. John's Aussie wine goes untouched. Hopefully I'll bring myself to uncork it tonight at Louis' birthday do!