One of the best-value red wines at Vintages. It’s a richly extracted full-bodied wine with a spicy, smoky nose of blackberries and black olives. It has a sweet and savoury taste backed by lively acidity.
Food match: barbecued meat, fresh Parmesan
Porcupine Ridge Syrah, 2012, South Africa, $14.95. Vintages #595280
Post City Magazines’ wine columnist, Tony Aspler, has written 14 books on wine and food. Tony also created the Ontario Wine Awards and has been inducted into the New York Media Wine Writers’ Hall of Fame. He can be heard on 680News.