N.V. Le Soula La Maceration Orange No.19

Very slightly cloudy, pale amber-gold. When I tasted this wine in 2020, I totally lost my heart. I`ve tasted and re-tasted this bottle, six months later, and I don`t want to take one word away, or add one word. OK, because I have verbiage issues, I will say more. This is a stunning wine to just sip: sip while you`re watching the sun set, sip while warming your hands to open-fire flames, sitting on freshly mown grass, sitting with your feet in a cold pebbly stream. But it is also one of those wines that almost magnetically seeks the companionship of food. It was gorgeous with biltong. It was absolutely spine-tinglingly gorgeous with subtle spice curries, with lamb cooked with orange juice and apricots, and OMG with Bryant Te rry`s utterly addictive dirty cauli and tempeh. If I were a sommelier, I could not not have this wine on my list. Every time I taste it, I rush to my kitchen and cook. Every time I taste it, I feel alive. 18 points