Provenance

Wine Cellar Private Client

Critics Ratings

'Complex 2020 shows razor acid balance with fruit and oak. Beautiful purity, too, of dried apple and peach on lees backing. Assured and elegant, nothing overstated or dominant. Sophisticated yet refreshing, with wonderful length and ethereal density. From shale ('skalie') site.' - Platter's SA Wine Guide 2022, 5* (95 pts),

'An Old Vine Project wine for the first time in the 2020 vintage, being from a vineyard planted in 1985. Almost colourless. Almost stinky, it's so mineral-driven on the nose! But on the palate it's much broader and friendlier. Very fine satin texture with a freshness and obvious ageability.' - Jancis Robinson MW, JancisRobinson.com, 17.5/20 (Sept 2021)

'Skaliekop comes from a small outcrop of shale and is entirely made with bush vine fruit. Herbal, intense and very focused, with what David Sadie calls "lateral tension", understated depth and concentration, notes of fresh dough, beeswax, lanolin and lemon zest and a stony, chiselled finish.' - Tim Atkin MW, SA Special Report 2021, 96/100

'Complex 2020 shows razor acid balance with fruit & oak. Beautiful purity, too, of dried apple & peach on lees backing. Assured & elegant, nothing overstated or dominant. Sophisticated yet refreshing, with wonderful length & ethereal density. From shale ('skalie') site.' - Platter's SA Wine Guide 2021, 5* (96/100)