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Kim Drake

Wine Curator

“When a winemaker gets the wine right, it is pure joy, like sipping a wonderfully painted artwork from the Louvre.” These are the words of Kim Drake, Londolozi’s Procurement Manager turned part-time Sommelier. Kim’s love of wine first started developing in 2010, shortly ...

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on What is a Bordeaux-style blend?

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Jill Grady
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I really enjoy your write-ups Kim, and I’ve learnt so much about wine from you that I didn’t know before. I love the way you also mention your favourite dishes and the melkkos looks and sounds so good! Thanks and I look forward to more of your great blogs!

Thanks for your lovely comments Jill, I thoroughly enjoy writing about wine and one can never know everything so love constantly learning more about it.

Michael Klauber
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Kim, Keep up the wine blogs! Here are a few of our favorite South African Bordeaux Blends – I’m sure you have most of them 😉

Meerlust “Rubicon”
Hartenberg Estate “The McKenzie”
De Toren “Fusion V”
Rustenberg “John X. Merriman”
Ernie Els “Proprietor’s Blend”

Thanks Michael, those are all great wines, think “The Mackenzie” is my favourite out of those. The demand on the De Toren Fusion V has become so high that it sells out extremely quickly and is very difficult to get, therefore I have included the Z on our list.

marinda drake
Guest

A lovely red for a cold winter evening in front of the fire. Lovely blog

Estra Booyse
Guest

A very informative discussion. Need to tatse The Toren with melk kos. Hope you can visit Bordeaux soon.

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