Tasting Notes: This is a Light plum red with attractive oak spices, red plum, orange and some oatmeal. Lovely ripeness of fruit on the palate, this has fabulous balance of juicy ripe fruits with dark chocolate, orange and strawberry and red berries with a crisp clean acidity, powdery but light tannins and undulating length of flavour on the extended finish. Delicious now but has the material to age well over the next 3-5 years.

Viniculture: Pinot Noir comes from a 3.25ha vineyard planted to two different clones. Hand harvested, destemmed, fermented in open fermenters for a period of ten days, utilising ambient yeasts and delestage to coax both flavour and colour from the fruit. The must was lightly pressed, racked off into French oak barrique (20% new) and malo-lactic fermentation occurs in barrique. The wine was barrel matured for a period of eleven months and lightly filtered prior to bottling to maintain the wines integrity and delicate Pinot flavour spectrum.

Winemaker: Richard Kershaw MW and Dudley Wilson

Vine clones: 115 and 777 on R110 rootstock

Block: Grapes from 4 selected East and North facing blocks

Soil: Table Mountain Sandstone with 10% Clay

Balling at Harvest: 23.4

Coopers: Tonnellerie Berger, F. Frère & Vicard, Louis Latour. Tight grain with medium toast 228L barrels

Maturation: 11 months in 20% new wood and 1 yr in bottle

Packaging: Cases of 6 x 750 ml bottles

Vegan: Yes

Awards: IWC Gold, Jancis Robinson 17, NWC Double Gold, IWC South African Red Trophy,