Complex, elegant and refined Cava with baked bread, peach, vanilla and honey, full-bodied with penetrating flavours and a clean, dry finish. A blend of Parellada and Xarello. Complex enough to serve with pork or poultry dishes. Cava de Paraje Calificado is a new category of vintage Cava for which, among other requirements, the grapes must be vinified on the estate from a single parcel with distinctive characteristics.
Ruby/purplish. Typical Sangiovese nose with an extra dose of small red fruits. Subdued spicy oak. Medium body, tight core of fruit extract and finely grained tannins. Firmness in the nice, moderately long finish. Ready to drink and perfect with tomato-flavoured Italian meat or pasta.
This signature wine from Hester Creek sourced from the estate’s oldest vines (some of the oldest in B.C.) is a wine that needs years of cellaring until it approaches any sort of balance. The nose is rich, dripping in generous notes of blackberries, black cherries, black currants followed by caramel spice, toasted vanilla and eucalyptus. It’s a well-structured wine on the palate with a riot of red and dark fruit backed up by plenty of oak spice, bramble, earth and a minty accent on the finish. It needs some aging to polish it all up.
Raspberry, blackberry, green herb and a note of peppery spice on the nose, with flavours of rich ripe berry, dark chocolate and contrasting dry tannins on the palate. Well-integrated fruit, chocolate, spice and drying tannins on the finish.
Crafted by German winemaker Armin Diel (Schlossgut Diel). The fresh, exuberant nose highlights green apple, fragrant floral and exotic spice. The off-dry palate features tangy acidity and a rich mid-palate, bursting with juicy nectarine and spicy peach flavours. Delightfully long lime peel and wet stone finish. An irresistible anytime sipper.
This blend of Négrette, Syrah and Gamay shows a nice dark pink colour. Light nose of strawberry and watermelon. Intense fruity taste; the mellow finish is a bit warm on the tongue. Drink now, well cooled.
Capturing the warm sun of South Africa and the cool coastal breezes, Sun & Air is a new line from Boutinot in their ever-expanding reach of affordable, well-made, excellently packaged wines from around the globe. They do particularly well with South Africa, finding interesting pockets of grapes and working with local vintners to make well priced, tasty wines. Like this, sourced from the foothills of Paarl Mountain, the second largest granite outcrop in the world (after Oz's Ayers Rock). Decomposed granite is hinted through the stony minerality woven in this wine. Bright and sunny with a steely backbone, streaming lemony acidity and heaps of green: apple, peas, asparagus, grass atop a fine layer of lees. The finish snaps to attention with zesty spice. This is a youthful, sunny wine for drinking now.