Great year for Syrah producing generous yields and good quality of fruit. Juicy and voluptuous wine. Heavy perfume made up of dark red fruit with black plums, salted licorice, peppery spices and new leather. Additionally a faint lavender menthol smell hit the senses. Tight finish with a touch of green pepper. Drink now through 2020.

A dark berry, violet airs in a streamlined nose, which is gracious and sustained, offers fine fruit, goes on a sexy curve. The palate delivers raspberry fruit with free, notably fresh appeal; it runs directly, takes on licorice, tea and mocha on the finish, and a fine red berry juice on the aftertaste. There is a quiet complexity here. The finale is lip-smacking, with scented,
violet notes. Fine, full and well balanced.

Vibrant, youthful and fresh palate driven by a tangy herb infused line of red fruit – red currant, sour red plum, pomegranate and marjoram – that gains warmth and depth turning to tobacco, game, cedar and darker fruit to close. Pulpy, fleshy fruit is drawn long with plum skin acids and stony tannins.

Inky black color with deep ruby hue. Complex nose with aromas of herbaceous notes of sage and rosemary mixed in with ripe cherry and crushed raspberry and a hint of Asian spices and smoked meat. Well-rounded palate with a rich mouthfeel and silky tannins with slight mineral and iodine notes on an impressively long finish and aftertaste. Mouthwatering wine with great depth.

Bibi is known for his artwork throughout Europe which each label show casing his personal work. On the nose this wine presents flavors of prune, chestnuts, cocoa, potpourri with a hint of rubber upon first opening. Tannins feel almost chewy adding to the intensity and creating a lingering finish. Full-bodied with loads of fruit on the palate. Great structure and character makes the wine easily drinkable. Ready to drink now.

Deep ruby colour, which will develops garnet shadows by aging. elegant, warm, spicy, with hints of black cherry, dried fruit, in particular prunes. round, velvety and smooth.

Intense garnet in color, the nose shows floral and spicy notes perfectly blended: tobacco, cherries, cocoa and fresh raspberry highlights. The palate is rich, full-bodied and elegant.

Sweet cherry, licorice and spice flavors, with a mineral streak emerging on the finish. The tannins are a bit drier here than in the younger vintages, offers a lovely, vibrant aftertaste.

Vivid ruby. Vibrant red and dark berry and Asian spice aromas carry a hint of musky earth. Sweet and incisive, offering palate-staining blackberry and boysenberry flavors and a late touch of bitter chocolate. Supple tannins give shape to the mineral-driven, sharply focused finish, which hangs on with excellent tenacity and building sweetness.

Nice suppleness at the attack. Good amount of sweet and velvety tannin and moderate alcohol give the wine medium body but greatly integrated charming red fruits tastes of cherry and cassis and bright and pure acidity bring the solid frame work in the taste at the end. Very fine texture and Umami.

A dark ruby-red wine with an intense bouquet of wild berries and light toasty notes. This Pinot is an elegant, harmonious medium-bodied wine with velvety dark fruits and a memorable finish.

Medium-dark wine. More reserved on the nose with aromas of flower petals and a hint of spice. Palate opens up with a brief dark cherry appearance with some additional plum and woody notes. Nice rustic wine with good concentration, texture and weight. Good amount of length at the finish. Will do well with some years of cellaring.

A very classic Saint Julien with cassis, lacquer and wood spices, coffee beans, along with cigar box, plum and a very elegance note of honey! It also represents the vintage very well, with its high notes and acid balanced by the depth of flavors.

Creamy plush plum and cassis with rich smoky undertones. Exotic spice aromas and graphite come together on the nose. Palate is smooth and concentrated delivering black cherry, black currant, pepper and licorice with just a hint of game. Tannins are fierce, but neutralized with tangy black fruit flavors and juicy concentrations. Still a touch tight and angular on the palate but will smooth out over the next three to four years.

Intense, high cherry robe with ruby tinges and a garnet hue at the rim. Ripe plums, blackberries, wonderful notes of dry violets and flowers, cocoa -a primary aroma of the Carignan- and fresh balsamic hints over a deep, throbbing mineral background. Ageing shows in light, well-integrated touches of liquorice, toffee and coffee. Acidity and tannins are so crisp and lively that they create a sense of endless exhilaration and continuous enjoyment on the palate.

Vivid purple. High-pitched cherry, black raspberry and floral scents pick up floral and mineral character with air. Suave, densely packed red fruit preserve and violet pastille flavors are braced by juicy acidity and show an appealingly light touch. Distinctly lively given its heft and showing zero rough edges. Fine-grained tannins come in late and provides shape and definition to a long, focused, floral-dominated finish.

Deep ruby. Wild nose melds aromas of dark berries, meat, leather, flowers, espresso and smoky oak. Plush, round and sweet, with dark fruit flavors complicated by salty minerality. Finishes with superb ripe tannins and noteworthy freshness. A fine-grained, very nicely balanced.

On the nose this wine in rich in aromas of sweet black currant and plum. On the palate there is musky dark berries and lively flavors of chocolate, smoke and plum with notes of oak and truffles in the background. Tannic yet soft medium weight palate. Ends with plum and black cherry. Definitely a racy red with good structure. Has a high potential, especially as it softens with age through 2027.

This wine displays a vibrant purple-red color. The bouquet is rich with black cherries and wild berries enriched with spices. Texture remains silky and soft with lost of fruit and tannins available. Flavor profile includes black cherry, plum, spices, tar and cedar. Full-bodied wine that remains forceful yet elegant. lingering tannin filled finish. A real crowd pleaser. May need more time to evolve.

One of their top vintages possibly mirroring their scorcher of 2003 which produced exciting but atypically fruity wines. Rich and powerful wine yet approachable and rounded with a variety of texture and fruit. Dark cherry nose with cassis and licorice nuances. Generous palate with characters such as charcoal, black raspberries, black currants, pencil shavings and a hint of truffles present. This wine will age well 10-15+ years after its vintage.

Deep ruby red with violet hues, generous, with red fruit cherry and plum notes combined with some sweet spice character, soft and full in the mouth demonstrating good structure and fine tannins.

Intense elegant wine with great structure and complexity, lovely balance between acidity, fruit and tannins. A great wine, beyond the grape varietal it’s made from, must talk of the piece of land it came from. Beyond being mainly good, it has to be a classic in its own way.

This wine has fragrant aromas of blueberries, black currant and chocolate with underlying hints of exotic spice and sweet tobacco. The palatte is fresh and vibrant with fine tannins supporting the fruit. Finish is smooth and velvety rounding up to be a remarkable elegant and already complete wine. Drink now but decant in advance. A good vintage for cellaring that will continue to age well.

A deep ruby red color. The nose is intense with dark red and black fruit mixed with roasted notes and spicy characters. Black currant, tobacco, blackberry, smoke cigar box characters are present. This wine has a nice intensity with a firm hand of tannins that balance out with an array of spices and earth. Very mouth-filling with lingering characters that make for a long aftertaste.

Produced from Massale clone of Chardonnay, the grapes are hand picked and perfectly ripe. This is a carefully a crafted wine, mineral and perfectly balanced, whilst at the same time full of charm and elgance. It will develop in your glass and awaken yoour senses.

Compact and precise bouquet with concentrated flavors of ripe fruit in the background with a steely intensity. Good Structured with notes of orange zest and apple skins that give this wine a boost of fragrance and acidity. Palate is well-balanced. Well made with subtle creamy flavors and a hint of toast and sweet yellow fruit. Long precise finish.

Pale-yellow in the glass. Fresh nose of apple and pear with a hint of new oak. Steely minerality with a hint of honeysuckle. This wine is well-balanced; layered, crisp acidity and long finish. Good overall but might be best to hold for at least a couple more years.

A composition of Terlano’s three most traditional white varieties, namely Pinot Bianco, Chardonnay and Sauvignon, this old cuvee, which was one of the wines produced when the winery was founded, is an extremely complex wine. Pinot Bianco, as the main variety used in the cuvee, provides the freshness and a good acid structure, while Chardonnay delivers a pleasing warmth and mellowness and Sauvignon adds the fine aromatic character.

A collaboration of Andrew Mills and William Dong, Handpicked Wines was established in 2005. William and his team now travel the world looking for great vineyards to grow the Handpicked portfolio. The fruit for this 2013 Chardonnay was harvested from two Mornington Peninsula vineyards, was 100% barrel fermented, then spent a further 11 months maturing in the same barrels. The resulting wine opens with vibrant nectarine aromas with lifted fig and melon and a sea salt / ozone-like complexity. The palate is elegant yet powerful with a solid core of yellow stonefruit with citrus and fig harmony supported by velvety oak richness.

Produced in the Swartland wine region in South Africa that has rose to prominence in recent years. Sadie Family Wines received Winery of the Year award with this wine as their blend of the years in 2010. Biodynamically created this wine remains beautiful golden color. Impressive wine with the right balance showing great clarity, detail and tension. Intricate nose of citrus fruit, stone fruit, hints of honey and bees wax as well as jasmine, baking spices, vanilla and chamomile. The wine has a gorgeous texture as it glides across the palate; oily and rounded with great acidity that elevates the wine. In the mouth notes of citrus continue combined with flavors of ripe peaches and nectarines. Notes of jasmine, marzipan, spices, grilled nuts, and herbs continue till finish. Great minerality. The finish has a good amount of length that seems to fan out with time. A special wine.

Rich pinky orange colour. Layered nose of orange peel, fresh peach, dry herbs, cedar forest and hint of stone-mineral scents; complex and rich nose but more flighty than expected. Savoury flavours of caramelised apple, ripe apricot, orange, red cherry and almond. Full of suppleness and juiciness in the mouth but crunchy, chalky texture with mild but enough acidity bring the long finish with some salty umami.

A brilliant light-yellow hue. On the nose are fragrances of white spring flowers, orchard fruit and crushed wet stone. The palate presents a flashy acidity balanced with apples and pears with a hint of pineapple and mineral finish. The different combination of soils from clay to limestone and gravel is what gives this wine such unique character. Grapes are picked by hand with 75% fermented in temperature controlled stainless steal containers while the rest if fermented in large oak barrels.

The Houchart Rosé has delicate citrus and strawberry aromas that carry onto the palate and develop into flavours of field berries, watermelon and mineral notes. A quintessential provencal rose that is clean and refreshing.

Bright yellow color with a fresh and flowery presence. Intense Muscat fruit on the nose. On the palate flavors of elderberry and nutmeg come through. Lively and very juicy with elegant acidity. This wine is beautifully structured, very harmonious and refreshing.

The “basic” Estate Riesling Trocken from Klaus-Peter Keller is superb in 2015 and will be one of the very best values to be found in the vintage. The bouquet is pure and very stylish, offering up scents of pink grapefruit, tart orange, a touch of petrol, chalky minerality, orange peel and a gentle topnote of wild yeasts. On the palate the wine is pure, fullish and very elegant, with a lovely core, bright, ripe acids and a long, seamless and complex finish. There is an effortless beauty to this wine this year that absolutely exemplifies the vintage.

Very fresh, bright, detailed and intense with keen acidity and a subtle herbal edge to the lively lemony fruit. Intense and vivid with real bite and minerality. A midweight body, spicy precision, great tension with a savoury long and saline finish.

Classic white Bordeaux from the portfolio of late Denis Dubourdieu. A blend of Sauvignon Blanc, Semillon and Muscadelle produces this phenomenal mix of concentrated fruit flavors. Lemon and lime aromas lead into a rich and long lasting palate with grapefruit and honeydew melon falvors coming through. There is more citrus on the finish alongside a refreshing
mineral note.

Delicate as the fine inclusions of quartz in Terlano’s volcanic porphyry rock – that is our Sauvignon Selection, which does full justice to its name. Quarz offers a combination of fine
texture, depth and salty aftertaste that has given this noble white an international reputation.”

Viniification and ageing takes place in stainless steel vats (50%) and barrels (50%) for 7 to 8 months, followed by bottling in spring. This wine has elegant fruit aromas. On the palate, the limestone minerality provides good length and a long lingering finish. To be enjoyed on its own or with grilled fish.

Medium yellow-green. In the nose fine fruit flavor, mineral spice, delicate after tropical fruits. On the palate, delicate peach fruit, elegant and carried by a fine brilliant acid, remains long lasting, great development potential.