Tokara wines released at last
4 Oct 2005 by JR
The first thing to say about the trio of wines finally released from South Africa  banker G T Ferreira’s luxury winery Tokara is that of course they are a teensy bit of a letdown. No wines could possibly live up to 10 years of pre-publicity. But they are pretty good, or at least two of them are. On a dramatic hillside between two of South Africa’s most admired wineries Thelema and Rustenberg, Tokara really does qualify for the over-used epithet ‘no expense spared’. When they needed cooler sites for some white wines, they used NASA technology and small aircraft to identify which lucky owners would have the Rand Bank chequebook...

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