History: The legend of Casillero del Diablo began more than 100 years ago, when Don Melchor de Concha y Toro, founder of the winery, reserved for himself an exclusive batch of the best wines produced. To keep strangers and light fingered workers away from this special private reserve; he spread the rumour that the Devil lived in his cellars, hence the name Casillero del Diablo or Cellar of the Devil.

I have enjoyed the Casillero del Diablo wines before but never the Shiraz. I bought a bottle of the Shiraz to review as Shiraz is one of my favorite wines and I wanted to see if the Shiraz lived up to the high standards of the rest of the range. It does! Due to the unique history of this wine I find it is a nice wine to take when going for dinner with friends, it’s an interesting (well I find it interesting!) talking point.

There is a fantastic video review on the Tesco wine club link (Click here and then click Watch Video) which describes this bottle perfectly. A rich, ripe wine, full of flavours of plums, chocolate and blackberries and topped off with subtle vanilla. The guy in the video recommends drinking it with steak or herb(y) sausages, but I went for piri piri chicken instead… fantastic!

This wine is available from Tesco Wine Club (case of 6 = £25.59, that’s £4.27 a bottle… that’s a bargain!)