Stylistic trends may well be overtaking the Frans K Smit, the top-end red blend from Spier. Maiden vintage being 2004, the winemaking approach has always been particularly brazen with highly concentrated fruit and lashings of new oak and this worked for a while with both the 2005 and 2006 being rated 5 Stars in Platter’s. […]

[Category: What I Drank Last Night, Christian Eedes Cabernet Sauvignon Report, Frans K. Smit, Old Mutual Trophy Wine Show, Spier]