The more elegant of the two single vineyards, the 2018 Steepside has notes of blood orange and also lots of red berries and a real sense of energy on the palate. The nose is almost ethereal in its character: this is a beautiful wine.
It's good to see a top Cape Syrah released with a little bottle age, especially when it’s as good as this one from a warm, north-facing site on clay soils. Complex, dense and voluptuous, it has garrigue and tarragon aromas, understated oak and flavours of cooked meat, tapenade, damson and blackberry. Superb. 2024-30
Maturity Ready 2023 - 2040
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Critic score 93/100
Maturity Ready 2023 - 2035
Maturity Ready 2023 - 2034
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