South Africa: Grenache

As an enhanced little update to this peppery piece posted last October:

South Africa part 2: "unusual" reds (some of them.)

Here are a couple of Cape Grenache reds worth mentioning, discovered at the World Grenache Competition held in the south of France earlier this year... More on that here (overview), here (Roussillon & Chateauneuf), here (Sardinia), here (Spain) and here (Australia).

Roussillon: Jean-Louis Denois, Saint Paul de Fenouillet

Updates posted November 2013: see link below.

There's a lot of talk about "low or no sulphite" wines, and enough examples out there to remind us why most winemakers DON'T go down this more challenging route (sulphur dioxide and related additives are basically used as anti-bacterial agent, antioxidant and preservative).