Upon opening our newest wine - Smernie, we were straight away attracted to a faint perfumed nose, that after a few moments and swirling around in our glass became more pronounced and even more Moorish.

The intense bouquet, filled the room and our heads, but was not to overpowering.......a wine for food, we had thinly sliced some Iberian Ham and had chosen a selection of stilton's to see how robust the Smernie is - Stilton is notoriously difficult to match with wines, as so many Stilton's vary from being hard with others venture on the very soft side - The dry and saltiness of the ham brought out wonderful notes of spice and mocha in the wine, and it helped the flavours linger longer in the mouth, I personally felt the harder of the Stilton's went better, they seemed to let the wine develop differently in the mouth, and overall made a wonderful experience of which will be repeated in the near future.

Smerenie is a limited wine, only 3800 bottles are produced and only when the vineyards deem the quality is good enough for the wine to be made made.

This is a special wine, one recommended for all occasions, and one that can be given to a connoisseur or a newbie to the world of wine as a gift.