Provenance

Private Client

Critics Ratings

'The Cape's best? Many believe so. Certainly not only a local benchmark, but much admired some of Portugal's leading producers (Charles Symington for one) for its combination of power and refinement. It would be infanticide to drink 95, bottled in October 1997, now. Even millennium year would be too soon. However it has remarkable depth of everything. Hints of plum, blackberry, green pepper are beginning to distinguish the nose. Texture is almost treacle-like, rolls across the palate in apparent slow motion. Deep, richly-layered fruit in drier (95 gms/l), more deliberately Portuguese-pitched style (19,5% alc.). 50/50 tinta barocca-souzão blend.' - Platter's SA Wine Guide 1999, 5*

'A Cape benchmark. Tinta barocca-souzão 50-50 blend, held to manageable 19.5% alc, 100 gms/l sugar. 94 awash in opulent chocolates, prunes but still great finesse; dry finish. Barrel-aged 2 years.' - Platter's SA Wine Guide 1997, Best of the bunch, Superior Cape quality, 5*