Dude, what have they done to your labels? Flagstone’s disaster
January 10th, 2010 admin
Bruce Jack of Flagstone is one of my favourite South African winemakers. He’s very smart, makes good wine and there’s a lovely warmth to his character. You can’t help but like him. In October 2007 I reported how he’d (unexpectdely) sold his winery to drinks giant Constellation . Visiting him in November last year I found that the Flagstone wines were as good as ever, but the one deeply regrettable change that Constellation had made was in the packaging. Jack’s labels used to be wonderful (see picture above which shows some of them on the wall
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