This week's wine has a straw yellow colour with a floral bouquet and hints of tropical fruit.

It's a dry wine with good acidity and a taste of mangoes with an earthy background. It comes into its own when drunk with food, particularly chicken although it will go well with stronger fish dishes. At 13% alcohol with mouth watering acidity it has a medium length finish and a pleasant aftertaste.

The Kumala label is owned by Western wines and sells over 2 million cases a year, they have a range of wines that are all worth trying. The grapes for this bottle were sourced from the Western Cape mostly Stellenbosch and Paarl. The winemaker, Ben Jordan, specialises in blends of this type. The dominant grape in this wine colombard was originally grown in the Charentais region of France where it was used as the base wine for Cognac. Then in the 1980s the Californians discovered it and it took on a new lease of life in the climate and soil of that state.

There is now twice as much vineyard area devoted to colombard as to any other grape variety, it seems to like the medium cool regions best. In South Africa they call it colombar and it thrives here in a similar climate. Its flowery fruity aroma is prized here, one authority likened it to the local keokamakranka flower! In this wine it's the dominant grape backed up by chardonnay and just a little oak. I found it in Tesco at £4.99 less than its price on the internet!