{wine} With love from Rascallion Wines – bottles with a cause

No jargon, no expansive tasting notes. Rascallion Wines is rather boldly redirecting the wine conversation to a much more important cause than terroir or temperature.

Introduction

Everyone that knows me, knows that I like to play with my food and wine. Yes, I try in earnest to learn how to swirl and sip and taste properly, but sometimes I just want to kick back with a great wine without trying so hard to compartmentalise, analyse and interpret the notes and undertones.

I was incredibly excited and curious when the Rascalette of Rascallion Wines asked me, quite frankly,  if I was thirsty. Well, yes! Always! A few weeks later, a box of Rascallion Wines arrived at my door, and the bottles were bursting to be unboxed.

I unpacked five bold, bright and beautiful bottles from their With Love from the Cape Collection. I immediately knew what I wanted to do for a food pairing. But first, I needed to take my five new friends on a road trip to an iconic location for a little photo shoot…because what says Cape Town more than our beautiful mountain and oceans?

Background

Launched in 2018, Rascallion Wines is a négociant based in Stellenbosch. They source finished wine from their partner wine cellars in Stellenbosch, the Swartland, Darling, Roberston and Piekenierskloof.

Rascallion Wines want to change the conversation so they won’t bombard you with history, terroir or complicated jargon – they’re here to provide interesting, easy-drinking wines for us to enjoy (https://rascallionwines.co.za/).

My first impressions

Rascallion Wines‘ With Love from the Cape Collection gives consumers permission to strip away their wine connoisseur jackets and starched collars and to chuck the wine dictionary out the window. It gives you permission to be unapologetically you and to enjoy this range of wines for exactly what it is; utterly fantastic wine.

Visually striking, these bottles break through all that’s a wine labeling convention and expectation. You can open a bottle without worrying about cellaring potential, or about lusting after a wine you’re saving for a “special occasion.” You can drink it when you want to, because you want to and simply because you can. No explanation needed for your choice, other than that it’s what you enjoy.

With Love from the Cape Collection

Rascallion Wines has launched the newest collection, the With Love from the Cape Collection – this collection is all about celebrating the beautiful Mother City anywhere in the world.

The collection includes the following five wines, and retails at about R70 – R80 a bottle:

Rascallion Wines and Dignity Dreams

With the launch of the With Love from the Cape Collection, Rascallion Wines are also showcasing their collaboration with Dignity Dreams,  a NGO that provides comfort and menstrual health education to young women and girls from disadvantaged and at risk communities in South Africa and Africa.

Dignity Dreams manufactures and distributes washable sanitary wear ensuring that entering womanhood is a time of joy and celebration rather than a time of shame and pain.

Dignity Dreams will receive a portion of the sales price of each bottle of wine sold from the With Love from the Cape Collection.

To read more about this Dignity Dreams and this very important collaboration, please click here.

Giving back with a voucher code!

And because I’m now a good and proper rascal myself, here is an awesome little treat for you. When you shop on the Rascallion Wines website, enter the my unique voucher code for your 10% discount, with compliments from myself and the Rascallion team!

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And please remember to P(l)ay it Forward to all your rascal friends, with love from the Cape!

Cheese and wine

Our Cape Townians really love our cheese and charcuterie platters. Even more so if we can pair a platter with a large glass or two of wine. To express my utter love for Cape Town, I paired the full range of Rascallion Wines with a 100% local selection of cheeses, meats and preserves.  A very important side note – I absolutely adore the Rosé with its gorgeously floral notes which tapers down to a delicious minerality on the finish.

The two reds are perfect for rich, fatty slivers of salami or cured coppa ham, proscuitto or even the more mature hard cheeses. The Chenin Blanc laps up anything creamy, and paired a real treat with the gooey brie and cream cheese, especially when served with a syrupy side of preserved clementine halves. The crisp, clean Sauvignon Blanc loved the pepper cheddar, surprisingly! But it also loves to have the spotlight all to itself.

In conclusion

Not only does the Rascallion Wines With Love from the Cape Collection give everyone across the globe a taste of our beautiful Mother City, but it also gives back to a very important cause through their collaboration with Dignity Dreams.

Keeping girls and women in education is a vital part of maintaining the drive towards economic and social empowerment for women in South Africa and Africa. This is a cause I can raise a glass to!

Thank you so much, Rascallion Wines, for putting the fun back into wining. And thank you for using your bright and bold space in our country to uplift and centralise such an important cause, in partnership with Dignity Dreams.

Disclaimer: I was given this product(s) as part of a press drop in exchange for my honest and truthful opinion and review thereof. All thoughts and opinions expressed herein are solely those of The Little Hedonist, given in good faith and in no way influenced by the company or its affiliates. All images, unless otherwise stated / credited, are also my own.

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