Looking for a bold and meaty rosé to perk up your collection? This is for you. Manly, in-your-face strawberry, blueberry and cherry fruit on the nose of this Malbec rosé. It’s slightly off-dry on the palate but layered in strawberry-cherry fruit that lingers on the finish.
Up-front stone fruit and pear notes followed by a generous but still focused palate with peach and citrus notes. Underpinned by form acidity with a lingering, slightly zesty finish.
So named because it takes about 900 grapes to make a bottle of this wine. It’s a wonderful SB that shows sweet summer grass, herbs, grapefruit, lime and tropical fruits. The lively and fresh fruits are carried on a firm spine of acidity on the palate all leading to a long finish. Summer sipping at its best.
The nose displays great finesse with fine fruit, cinnamon, nutmeg and a light touch of vanillin. Plum and dark cherry flavours are wrapped in a still developing velvety, full-bodied texture with a deft touch of oak on the finish. Heavy dry tannins need time to soften. Best in another 5 to 7 years.
Shows deep burnished gold colour in the glass, with aromatic ripe grapefruit, stone fruit and honeyed lemon overtones. Unctuously rich, smoothly rendered stone fruit is tempered by stony mineral grip and palate-cleansing acidity. A lovely wine for the money.
Clear medium-deep garnet. Forward nose of raspberries and blackberries with some stemmy aromas from the Castelão grapes. Stewed red berry fruit is rich, but a bit upstaged by high tannins and high acidity. At its best now.
Grassy, gooseberry top precedes an assertive high acid entry with crisp, citrus and herbaceous notes, then opens up to Meyer lemon, wrapped in juicy acidity with a crisp, clean finish. Some time in used oak brings added texture. Oysters on the half shell, please.