Nativo Grenache

Nativo 
Grenache 
2018 
Swartland 

Full disclosure: This wine was made by my very good friend Lieze Norval. However, I’d love this even if I didn’t already love her. 

If there were a third friend in Emma Jane Unsworth’s novel Animals, which is filled with feral cats, debauchery and laddered pantyhose, it would be the Nativo Grenache. Mascara crumbed and secondhand leopard print coat off one shoulder, lipstick-ringed cigarette gesticulating in the air, she’s the girl that brings in the best kind of 4am. All goji berries, dried cranberries and figs with a swirl of molasses, she might be up past her bedtime, but you’d still follow her into the night blindly.

Pair with: A wild femme to the end, the Nativo Grenache is all about hedonism and the near painful need to keep the party going.