During harvest, a cellar hand wanted to taste the wines ‘blind’. Not being able to cover the labels, he made a makeshift blindfold from a lab cloth and told his colleague to pour the wines into a few glasses. Reaching for the wine glasses he inadvertently ‘frisked’ them to make sure he had a firm grip, a point duly noted by his co-workers in snickering tones. He then proceeded to tell all and sundry that he got a kick out of the ‘prickle’ of the wine as he swallowed.
And so for a wine that is indeed fresh, frisky and just a touch prickly, it’s quite an apt name.
