The Boland Cellar Coffee-Style Pinotage delivers layers of dark prune, plum and sweet blueberry flavours with a prominent cedar French oak finish, reminiscent of Mocha Java. Due to the beautiful extraction of Pinotage fruit flavours, the oak was well integrated and delivered a wine with a creamy lingering finish.
Colour: Dark garnet with a bright red rim. Nose: Black cherry dominates with blackberry, subtle cedar, fynbos and wild fig. Palate: Full bodied. Black cherries and plum on entry with a complex mid-palate and a mocha finish – very moreish! Soft round tannins with long velvety fruity finish.
Colour: Deep ruby centre with a clear red edge. Nose: A beautiful collaboration of the typical characteristics of the cultivars, prune juice, ripe cherries, mulberry, cigar box, cloves and graphite. Palate: This approachable wine has beautiful ripe, soft and silky tannins with good balance and a lingering finish. Black cherry, fresh raspberries, tobacco, herbaceous notes and pencil shavings are prominent. Balanced acidity and vibrant flavours complement this elegant wine.
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.
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.
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