South Africa

Food Pairing: Burrata, walnut and endive salad with a citrus vinaigrette or fresh blue crab dress with olive oil rich mayonnaise or sweet chilly barbeque chicken wings.

Food Pairing: Nothing shouts ‘Bring me shiraz’ like a 28 day dry-aged rump steak, cooked to perfection on the barbeque and served with a green pepper sauce or try pulled pork Mexican Tortillas. A surprisingly good match is also Peking duck.

Food Pairing: Pinotage goes surprisingly well with sushi. Try it. Thai food is a natural partner as is barbequed meats, particularly game.

South Africa produces fantastic Chenin blanc and this wine is no exeception and shows exciting stone fruit aromas. The palate is a delicious medley of summer fruits and citrus. 

Food Pairing: This wine loves spicy food, particularly Indian spices. Also try with fresh Dover sole, lemon butter, classic Caesar salad or Veal saltimbocca.

With enticing aromas of an exotic flower garden, this light, low alcohol wonderfully refreshing wine tastes of peaches and cream, and tangerine. Serve chilled.

Fresh raspberry scent. Gush of nicely textured red fruit, with very gentle tannins.

Full-bodied, with distinctive, plum and savoury notes. Elegant and refreshing. Ideal for any occasion and drinks well with or without food.

Syrah/Shiraz: 60%,  Merlot: 19% Mourvedre, 11% Cabernet Sauvignon: 7%Touriga Nacional,  2% Viognier:

With aromas of black cherry, basil, rosemary and spice and flavours of ripe plum and dark chocolate the wine surprises with its refreshing acidity and softness (due to a lack of tannin).

Ripe purple plum, white pepper, chocolate, spice and garden herbs on the nose introduces a rich palate of black fruit and silky smooth tannin.

This is an ambitious blend of Malbec, Syrah, Pinot Noir, Touriga Nacional & Tannat which on the nose shows ripe, blackberry fruit with white pepper and a touch of cigar box. On the palate the dominant ripe fruit shows a more elegant red spectrum with cherry, raspberries and plum standing above an under-layer of enticing dark chocolate and darker black fruits like mulberry.

51% Syrah, 19% Tannat, 12% Pinot Noir, 9% Malbec, 6 % Barbera & 3% Touriga Nacional

Food Matching Venison, thick rump steak or any BBQ meats.

This wine is from the deep, cold south, where storms smash frigid waves into the rocky coast and where winemakers dream of finding meaning in their lives and loves. It is ethereal and nuanced and perfectly poised to make you smile that knowing smile.

All you really need for this wine is a magnificent view and an African sunset. Preferably in the bush, with the smell of wood fire smoke, baked red earth, crushed dried grass and the roar of a territorial lion in the distance.

The wine is mesmerizingly complex – with notes of ripe strawberry, Indian spice, plum, cardamom, thyme, rhubarb, red cherry and a touch of toasty cinnamon.Every time one takes a sniff a new nuance reveals itself.

The palate is elegant and soft, but alive and fresh with lingering creamy tannin. Flavours of strawberry, chocolate, dried garden herbs, ripe nectarine, warm spices and a touch of vanilla wash over your palate. The complexity of the wine could be overpowering, but is balanced by intriguing red berry freshness.

Try with king prawns or slow roasted veal shoulder. It goes with a lot of surprisingly rich foods as well.