Aromas of red plums, cherries and touches of oatmeal on the nose are mirrored on the palate, where there is a lovely ripeness of fruit, balanced by the fresh acidity. Strawberries and red summer fruits are complemented by subtle hints of dark chocolate and orange, supported by fine tannins. International Wine Challenge (IWC) - Trophy, International Wine Challenge (IWC) - Gold This wine had my hands hovering over the keyboard, not quite sure how to describe it. - slam-dunk Pinot in a blind tasting, and yet it's so different, so unusual. The fruit is full and sweet but more than anything else is a distinctive soft-steeped honeybush-tea character, giving it an almost hauntingly beautiful and achingly delicate flavour prowle; sweetness that is origami-folded, dry-pressed between sepia pages brushed with watercolour impressions of damson and old cherry, cacao husk and fynbos herbs, and the smell of resin in the air on a hot, still day. Even the tannins feel like chalk pastels. I would never, ever have guessed this wine was 14%. It is wonderful. Distinctive, of its place, of its grape. - 17 points, Jancis Robinson, September 2022


