This was held at Dear
Me restaurant in Longmarket Street on Tuesday, 1st April and we
tasted through the entire range of Sutherland and Thelema wines. They have some
absolute crackers and you will be if you don’t source some of them soon before
they sell out. The Thelema 2012
Chardonnay is already sold out although there may be some in good wine shops
and you will certainly find in on good wine lists at good restaurants. We think
the Thelema Shiraz may well win awards; the Merlot 2010 is probably the best
Merlot we have tasted this year, soft, fruity, with no stalky green notes, and no lactic either. The Thelema Cabernet
Sauvigon 2009 is an absolute classic, full of all the forest floor and dark
berries one expects. The Mint Cabernet
is also one to try, different and good with food, we think, lots of chocolate
and mint flavours.. The mint is a characteristic we have always found in Thelema cabs. The Sutherland Viogner Roussanne is excellent, the
Sauvignon Blanc a lovely example of what
Elgin grapes can do.
The interior of the restaurant
Welcomed by a glass of a Thelema classic - their 1994 Blanc de Blanc MCC.
We had a good bottle, very rich and full of elegant notes of citrus
The trade loves tasting and discussing wine
The Thelema Sutherland wines are distributed by John Collins, seen here with Kyle Martin, one of his representatives
Marketing man Thomas Webb and Diaan
van Zyl
Amanda Visser wearing the Thelema
symbol of the phoenix rising from the fire
Thelema owner and cellarmaster Giles Webb
A stairway to madness?
The menu for Dear Me, photographed by the door under streetlights
© John & Lynne Ford, Adamastor & Bacchus 2014
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