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✨🍷 Our first South African Wine Cellar x Is Life a Recipe event at Merry Go Round in Siglap
Aug 23, 2025
✨🍷 Our first South African Wine Cellar x Is Life a Recipe event at Merry Go Round in Siglap was a huge success 🙌
https://islifearecipe.net/
Guests enjoyed 9 standout wines, including:
🥂 Domaine des Dieux MCC (2018)
🌸 Bosman Generation 8 Rosé (2021)
🍏 Carmen Stevens Sauvignon Blanc (2019)
🍐 Laarman Ladybird Chenin Blanc (2019)
🌿 Opsal Sauvignon Blanc/Christian (2022)
🍇 Bosman Adama Red (2022)
🍒 Laarman Ladybird Pinotage (2017)
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host Julius
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[Music]
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Mary Grant. Lovely, lovely bar. You guys
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should visit a little bit more often. Um
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it's down the road for me. So find
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myself here back home in most instances.
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But Julius is a fantastic host. Plenty
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amazing wines, whisies, tequilas, beers,
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etc. But also he's a chef, you know. So
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most amazing. Yes, we are here at Mary
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Go. The guests have arrived for our
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first VIP event of South Africa wine
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tasting from South African wine seller
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here at Merrygoround with Julius our
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host who's cooking today.
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Here we go. Keep watching folks. More to
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come. And we're off. We're here again at
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Merry Go Round in Siglet having the
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South African wine celler wine tasting.
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The very first life recipe. And we're
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off with this beautiful rosé.
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It's probably gonna reverse it. This is
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Bossman. This actually comes from
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Wellington in South Africa, which is
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approximately two hours from Cape Town.
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Um, it is absolutely gorgeous. We've
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just had it like almost frozen. Um, I
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would say you can have this any time of
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the day. It's crisp. It's It's citrus.
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Um Oh, it's guzzle juice. It's just
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absolutely delicious. A little known
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fact as well, Bossman, the actual um the
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winery gave 26% of equity on this on
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this um beautiful product back to the
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employees. And I think that is just an
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amazing story. So, there's another
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reason to buy some of this absolute
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deliciousness, which I think you could
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probably drink 24 hours a day. Bottle
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number two coming up shortly. What a
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great start to a day. Don't forget,
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like, subscribe, and you'll keep getting
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more videos coming through on this.
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If you look at the glass, you look at
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it, you'll see the bubbles sort of
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sort of rising.
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[Music]
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This is Claudia which uh as we all know
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cannot be called champagne. Um so this
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is a brew. It comes from a place in
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South Africa that has a literal
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translation of heaven on earth. Don't
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you just love that? Um this has been
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fermenting for 72
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months. So nearly seven years. And it's
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a very special process where the yeast
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is actually fermenting it in the bottle
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and then they turn the bottle, turn the
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bottle and it ends up face down and then
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they freeze the yeast, pull it out, top
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up with some more juice, seal it and
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then sell it. So it's quite unique but
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it's made in the same way as champagne
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would be. So this is Claudia from South
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African wine. Here we go.
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Oh my gosh, I'll tell you what. That's
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as good as any I've had, even being in
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the Champagne region of France, which is
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fun enough where my first son was
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conceived.
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And if you want more crap like that and
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more stories, please like, subscribe.
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Next bottle coming up soon. And next up,
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we've got music now. And Jude joins us.
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Say hi, Jude. Clearly not part of the
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wine tasting, but uh we visit now
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Stelenbos in uh I think it's in Durban.
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Um, and this is a beautiful uh beautiful
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absolutely stunning Samuel Blanc um by
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Carvin Stevens. I mean, check this out.
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Bottle designed by her daughter right
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here as well. So, um, been compared to
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the sort of the Marbers. Um, so, you
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know, the oyster bays of the world. Goes
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really well with fish. Goes really well
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with oysters, funny enough. So, get some
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some prawns on the barbecue, some spicy
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prawns cuz this is just like a palette
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cleanser. Very acidic. Um, beautiful
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sort of almost fruity. I don't know. I'm
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picking up a bit of mango in the back
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there, but it's just so crisp. It's so
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light. It's just absolutely delicious.
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Um, yeah. Con Steven Stellen Bosch. Just
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check it out.
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It's an absolute stunner. Keep watching.
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More bottles to come. I don't know
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what's going on here. South African wine
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seller is treating us righty as you can
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see. So is our friends from Merry Go
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around. The food is flowing. The wine is
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flowing. What an awesome Saturday.
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Sunday. Saturday. See, I've never
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forgotten the date. Massively impressed
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with this cuz I just keep drinking wine
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and I have to keep doing videos.
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Spencer's got me under the thumb for it.
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Next up, we have this beautiful thing
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called So, it's from the Boston family
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again. So, remember that first one we
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had, the rosé. This one's called a
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dammer. It's a 2022. Let me just um say
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a damma means from the sale. I love
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that. um which is basically the nickname
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of the Adam Apollus I think it says here
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which is the legendary patriarch of
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families who have been growing wines
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with the Boston family over many
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generations. The interesting thing about
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this one it's got seven yes seven
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different wine variats. I mean it's
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incredible. The prominent one is is a
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shar. Um but when you sit this thing
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it's kind of like you're confused. You
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think it's a pino. You think it's it's
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just crazy. But the the dominant one is
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a shir. Again, it's a very light one
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designed to be chilled. Um and therefore
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for Singapore, this thing is just off
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the charts. Good. Right.
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Oh my goodness gracious. Five things.
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What was it? Swill. Sniff.
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Sip.
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That's right. Five things. Swill. Sniff.
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Very good. And then you got to sit. And
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then you got to and then swallow five
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things. The five S's as we're being
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instructed here today. Keep watching. I
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think we got more wine to come. Please
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subscribe below and you'll find out
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what's coming before anybody else.
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Halfway there. Whites down. Uh can you
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believe it? We're into the reds. And um
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first up we gone for this. So we've gone
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for this basically uh our friends from
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uh South Africa Wine Seller have given
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us this one. It's an Oxdale.
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See this this is absolutely gorgeous
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221. Um this is seven generations
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winery. Um so it's been wine in in South
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Africa been going about 350 years. Go
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figure, right? Um so this this winery
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itself has been going since 1847. So
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seven generations. This is a caps and
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sins salt. Um grape. So the sins salt
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makes it quite light, you know. So it is
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a caps, but that addition there of this
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um this sins salt just it's stunning. It
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really is. It's from Schlankhook, I
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think it is, in South Africa. It's
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beautiful. Right. This stuff you could
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tip and tip and tip. You're not going to
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get, you know, massively overbearing
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cabs which is going to kind of ruin your
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evening. This stuff I could drink this
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all freaking night.
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Oh, it's the case in hand is at the
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moment all afternoon. It's totally
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delicious. Really floral. Beautiful.
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Beautiful taste. I'm going to buy some
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of this one. Keep watching. There's uh I
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don't know another three bottles to
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come. Woohoo. Hopefully I can still
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talk. If you want to see the next
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bottles, give us a subscribe and you'll
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know when they're coming. Thank you. On
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we're on to
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the ladybird. Okay. So this is
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sustainable um white. So basically it's
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vegan and it's organic. So no pesticides
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and it doesn't get filtered uh through
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egg white which is how wines are
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normally um filtered. Um so consequently
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you can see the color of this is a bit
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darker though. Look at that. Um quite
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amazing. And also it does actually take
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some of the liquid away by not filtering
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it through egg white. So consequently
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that's why you pay a bit more for
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organic. Okay.
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It's
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got a hint of Chardonnay on there,
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but this is beautiful. So, this is
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Ladybird. It comes from um Shenimin
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Blanc, which is on the Western Cape.
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This is a 2019.
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Um it's just absolutely freaking
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gorgeous. It's another white here from
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from South Africa and our mates in South
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Africa, African wine seller. It's just
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crisp and it's gorgeous. I'm not a mad
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lover of um Chardonnay. I find it too
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woody, like really heavily woody. This
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one, albeit it's kind of got a little
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bit of a shard there.
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It's not overpowering. It's totally
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totally gorgeous. So, the ladybird,
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highly recommend it, and it's
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sustainable, which is great. So, keep
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watching. More to come. And please like,
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subscribe, and then you'll know when
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more is coming.
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Wow. Keep pushing on. Keep pushing on.
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And we're on to another road. This is um
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I'm so going to do South Africa
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disservice with my pronunciation. So I
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do apologize. Lama shock I think it's
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called very dry. It's very arid. Um this
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is a reserve from 2018. Um
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from Zvat land it's incredible name.
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Right. But I tell you this is killer.
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It's it's called a sira. Um, so it's
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kind of a Shiraz, but it's not the punch
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of Shiraz, which, you know, you get
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smacked around the face by really,
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really powerful kind of berries. This
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one is, I don't know how it does it.
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It's still got it, you know, still got
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blackberry and raspberry and, you know,
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many other berries. Black pepper, white
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pepper. It's still got that, but it's
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lighter. And what our mates from uh
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South Africa wine seller have done is
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they've chilled this as well, you know,
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which we love in Singapore. We love a
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chilled red, we love a chilled white.
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It's absolute killer.
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It It's It's just absolutely stunning.
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Truly is.
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[Music]
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It's not.
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You don't get that real kind of dry. I
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think it was described as sometimes the
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tannins in like a heavy sh will give you
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like a dry taste here or dry seasoning
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here. You don't get that with this. It's
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so much lighter. And again, this is
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dangerously amazing tip juice. So, yeah,
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get get this bad boy in your life. This
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is worth a go. Um,
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I can't say it. I can't say it.
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Spencer's going to tell me off, but I'm
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not going to say it. But just, you know,
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there's something below. There's two
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things you do, and then I'll I'll do
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more of this uh nonsense. Thank you.
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Cheers. Okay, final throngs
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of what I think was one of the most
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amazing wine tasting sessions with South
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African wine sellers.
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The legend that is and our friends at
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Mary go around Julius at the back there.
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I'll tell you what, that was
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exceptional. And we got a bit of Fred
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again banging in the background now. and
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on my final glass. I think we've been at
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two two and a half hours now wine
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tasting and it's just been exceptional.
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So please, you need to join the next is
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like a recipe
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tasting experience where we could be
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doing some whisies. We are definitely
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going to be doing tequilas and mezcows
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at various locations across Singapore.
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But you have to subscribe to find out
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where these are going to be so that we
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So get on it. Wonderful day. Um, I can't
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thank our friends, our guests, our VOPs
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enough
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