Cape Heritage, Sweets & Fortifieds
Timed Online Auction, 5 - 17 June 2025
Sweets
About the SessionA rich offering of vintage wines that have stood the test of time.
About this Item
The Olerasay is a solera-styled, Swartland straw wine made from Chenin Blanc and spans the 2008 to 2014 vintages. Released in 2015, this maiden release remains the highest scoring South African wine to achieve 99 points from Robert Parker's Wine Advocate. It is expected to age well for four decades to come.
Provenance
Private Client
Critics Ratings
'It is not the most unctuous wine, the most powerful and ostentatious, yet that precision in the finish is bewitching and worthy of what I think to date might the highest score I have ever awarded to a South African wine'. - Neil Martin, Wine Advocate, 99/100 (April 2017)
'A wine that is evolving beautifully in bottle to show toffee apple, dried apple, apple strudel pastries, and a dense, creamy mid-palate concentration with sweet tangy acids, salted toffee and a long, elegant complex finish. Simply delicious to drink now but no rush whatsoever.' - Greg Sherwood MW, Winemag.co.za, 98/100 (October 2023)
'Made from vintages 2008-2014, fractionally blended solera-style (hence the 'pig Latin' name!). NV richly woven, with layered glacé pineapple, caramel, citrus peel & toasted hazelnuts; vast 260 g/l sugar is uncloying, with lovely freshness, piquancy & length at just 11% alcohol. A Bacchanalian masterpiece, deserved recipient of the inaugural Dessert Wine of the Year award.' - Platter's SA Wine Guide, 5* (2016)
'Made from vintages 2008-2014, fractionally blended. NV richly woven, with layered glacé pineapple, caramel, citrus peel & toasted hazelnuts; 260 g/l sugar is uncloying, with lovely freshness, piquancy & length at just 11% alcohol. Inaugural Dessert Wine of the Year in 2016.' - Platter's SA Wine Guide, 5* (2017)