While Romania may have failed to qualify for 2010 and SA “learners”, scandalously let off school for the duration of the soccer spectacular, will fail to see Florin Răducioiu, Dudu Georgescu and Necula “Tamango” Răducanu tripping the light fantastic in Durban’s Giant Handbag or Greenpoint’s Oyster Mushroom (much to the relief of tongue-tied TV announcers) the flavour of Romania will not be missing from the most anticipated event since the Second Coming. For Nederburg cellar master Razvan Macici has played a blinder in the shape of the Nederburg twenty10 Cabernet Sauvignon 2007 made specially for the event.

Cigar box on the nose and savory purple blackcurrant pastilles on the palate (those ones that Roundtrees used to make – Wonkas to an Aussie) the Official Red for the Cup is far from a tourist rip-off at R70 a bottle and a great takeaway curio for all that. Although by kickoff time, if UK students continue to set fire to their underpants in flight, all liquids will need be consumed before boarding the plane home. But given the quality of this rustic red, my call is that plenty of foreign spectators will throw away their passports and exploding underwear and join the swelling army of tour guides and touts in Sea Point. You can’t beat it: salty gorgonzola pizza from Posticinos and a bottle of Razvan Red “beside me in the wilderness, and wilderness is paradise enow” as Ted said to Omar.

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