Colour: Dark ruby with purple edges. Nose: Beautiful aromas of fresh violets, white pepper, red fruit with a whiff of spice. Palate: Full bodied wine with elegant fine tannins. Mineral with vibrant fruit and spicy flavours. Dark chocolate combines with darker fruits to provide a long lingering finish.
Colour: Deep garnet in colour with a bright red edge. Nose: Brimming with red and black berries and mulberry flavours, with subtle notes of pencil shavings, graphite, spicy white pepper, biltong and violets in early spring. Palate: Smooth elegant focused palate with mid-palate ripeness and spicy supple finish. Red and black fruits dominate balanced with a graphite steeliness. The tannins are soft and refined and exquisitely round off the aromas of spice and fresh plum. Savoury, layered complexity with lots of finesse.
Rich and full palate with complex array of dark fruit. The middle palate is full and shows width with complexity and depth leading to a long, full finish. Fine wood tannins combine with well balanced acidity.
An elegant, perfumed example of Chenin Blanc with symphonic notes of jasmine, citrus, tropical notes, gooseberries, white flowers, candied naartjie peel and a whiff of white peach. Hints of fresh brioche and a tiny expression of oak. Palate: Medium bodied with refreshing acidity. On the palate pear, quince, lemon with lingering flavors of summer melon and persimmon.
A bright, lively nose with mineral overtones giving way to stone fruit, light roasted almonds and a waft of lemon meringue. Eleven months lees contact adds a refined creaminess and complexity, presenting an appealing full mouth and length. Elegant flavours of citrus and white blossom, knit with a minerality, some salinity and complex acidity to provide a long, smooth finish.
The wine is a deep, dazzling purple. Initially rather closed, the nose opens with airing to reveal elegant fresh fruit, blackcurrant bud and eucalyptus aromas. A fresh, clean attack leads into a full, powerful and silky mid-palate, building to an incredibly long finish on notes of brioche and liquorice. An intense and stylish vintage to come back to in a few years’ time.
Thrilling notes of pure crème de cassis, lead pencil shavings, crushed mint, graphite, and crushed rock notes all emerge from this deep, powerful, yet elegant Pauillac. The style of this wine has become more and more finesse-driven and pure, yet it hasn't lost a beat on concentration or length.
Intense and very pure, the nose combines black fruit fragrances (blackberries, blueberries) with woody (cedar) and mineral (graphite) notes. Medium-bodied, the palate entices with its refined structure and tight tannins. A silky, creamy feel stretches to a persistent, aromatic finish.
Deep red-ruby. Aromas of blackberry, licorice, minerals, flowers and peat, with some chocolatey oak emerging with air. Juicy and silky on the palate, with lovely clarity and inner-mouth perfume to its flavors of black fruits, minerals and iris. Finishes long and firmly structured, with intriguing soil tones and lovely floral lift