Just how good was that Shiraz?

A friend took this photo after we'd devoured the red bubbly I was raving about in the last post. I haven't seen myself looking quite like that over a wine before, and it was just that good. Oh, and the second photo is about another 'accidental wine' ingenuity: a bottle from a small batch of Pinot Noir, just at the peak of it's maturity, which the winery deemed didn't fit their range and style of wines.

And they were right - Bellevue has great, accessible wines, including the first Pinotage I've liked and bought - the Pinot Noir having been a complex character, but better than any I'd had from California.