Rumball Sparkling Shiraz NV

Made by Peter Rumball Wines in Australia (region: Coonawarra) .

A dry, sparkling, red wine with 12.5% alcohol tasted on 15th Mar 2009.

Grape: Shiraz

Quality: Good

Value: Above Average

Cost: Usually between $17.99 - $22.99.

Looks: Crimson red colour, not opaque, with a real bubble going on.

Smells: Raspberry / cherry flavoured lollies

Feels: Medium bodied with a decent, medium bubble sized fizz

Tastes: My description of this wine will not make it appeal to wine nerds at all. It is quite lolly-like in its tones - raspberry and cherry lolly tasting, but with a dryish finish. The bubbles are handled very well - enough to lift the wine above the syrup taste and give it freshness and life. But there is also a little acid giving this effect as well, so that you still decide that this wine is dry when are finished. So having said all that - this is so easy to drink, and so inoffensive, that you have to like it.

Possible retailers: Woolworths Liquor, Liquorland, Dan Murphy's, Kemeny's, 1st Choice.