This tank fermented, unwooded Chardonnay is showing a crisp refreshing nose with gooseberries and green apple rounded of with a hint of white peaches. The wine shows delicate fruit flavours with green apple and peach on the palate with a lingering aftertaste of citrus.
The idea is a versatile lifestyle wine for different occasions and meals.
Good fruitiness with bright red fruit, pepper spice and some leather on the nose. There is a degree of complexity to the aromatics of this wine that makes it a pleasure to drink. The palate initially shows good aromas of red fruit with leather and tealeaf on the midpalate followed by a lingering aftertaste of red fruit and pepper.
An uncomplicated, summer lunch wine which would be excellent with all fresco Italian food, with its up front fruitiness and peppery undertones. The structure and mouth feel is soft and accessible, which improves with food.
The wine shows beautiful fruit aromas of predominantly cherries and raspberries. The wine is well structured with a good balance between the acidity and tannins with a terrific mouth-feel. The palate is dominated upfront by bright red fruit flavours with a lingering aftertaste of spices.
Medium bodied in style, it has great texture and mouth feel and a long finish.
The wine shows rich, deep aromas of plumbs and cherries on the nose with a subtle aroma of dark chocolate and a dash of spice.
The palate explodes with rich textured fruit flavours of plumb, cherries and dried figs with an underlying toasted spice. A good firm tannin structure and a long finish with lingering dark chocolate flavours complete this well balanced wine.
Medium bodied in style, it has great texture and mouth feel and a long finish.
This wine shows classic pinot noir aroma, rich stewed fruit with apricot, intermingled with bright raspberry and strawberries. The palate is a wonderful blend of bright fruit and earthy minerality with a hint of fresh acidity. A lingering aftertaste of rich forest floor and apricots slowly disappear with faint hints of strawberry right at the finish.
The wine could be drunk now or over the next 3 to 4 years. It should be enjoyed with meat like game or lamb or fish (tuna or salmon). The wine is best served at around 12 to 13 degrees Celsius.
The wine is made from Muscat d' Alexandrie (red Hanepoot grapes) from 50 year old vines.
It is a fortified wine, in other words, the alcohol has been adjusted to 15%, together with a higher residual sugar of 193g/l, to balance the intense muscat flavours. A small amount of Touriga Nacional is added to ensure a good colour.
Bright elegant Muscat flavour with a fresh lingering after taste true to the vintage
