{"product_id":"luddite-shiraz","title":"Luddite Shiraz","description":"\u003cp\u003eSome people describe Luddite Shiraz as Niels Verburg contained in a glass; Niels is six foot four and his smile is the embodiment of a warm embrace.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAs a young winemaker traveling the world, Niels confirmed his love for Shiraz when working a harvest in Australia, but it was a winery in Chile that inspired his wine-making method. “It was as if I’d gone back 20 years; it was ramshackle and chaotic, but they had great fruit and passion and I’d never seen that quality of wine”, he explains.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“The nitty gritty of good winemaking is to have good grapes, good yeast and good barrels,” says Niels. “Being hi-tech and cutting edge isn’t important to me. When you go into a winery and see the centrifuges and reverse osmosis, it’s like going into the kitchen of a top restaurant and seeing a microwave, you think “Hey, that’s not right!”’\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eLuddite Shiraz 2000 was the Luddite’s first vintage. “There’s been an improvement every year,” says Niels. “The ultimate goal would be a perfect wine, but of course that doesn’t exist.”\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"LUDDITE","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46236799926468,"sku":null,"price":1000.0,"currency_code":"ZAR","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1351\/1223\/files\/LudditeShiraz-2_8a1979e4-000b-4b6e-a605-eb987ce6373a.png?v=1781188246","url":"https:\/\/brewkombucha.co.za\/products\/luddite-shiraz","provider":"BREW KOMBUCHA","version":"1.0","type":"link"}