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Blockhead Chenin Blanc
A really fresh Chenin, delicious tropical fruit flavours with a rounded finish. This is such good value for money.
Blockhead Shiraz
Made from 60-year-old vines, most of which are in the trendy Swartland region. About 30% stems are used in the fermentation and the wine receives a sort of Ripasso treatment as the wine is run over the skins again at the end.
It’s fresh, vibrant, positively thumping with sappy cherry fruit. The grip is there but perfectly balanced with a classy spiciness.
Aloe Tree Shiraz
This Shiraz is bursting with dark berry flavours of blackberry, dark cherry and plums.This Shiraz has soft and supple tannins and a white pepper finish. Great for everyday drinking or with barbequed meats.
Reflektief Palomino
Light and delicate with notes of lemon, almond and a pronounced minerality. A lip-smacking acidity and crisp finish make it a nice alternative to Verdejo.
Kabbelend Cinsault
Natural red grown from organic, dry-farmed bushvines on a plot right on the border of Paarl and Swartland, mean the vines have to work extra hard giving a lovely concentration of flavour. Crunchy, fresh cranberry and red cherry with a delicate floral quality. Super juicy, spicy and not taking itself too seriously.
Bon Courage Gewurztraminer
Bon Courage award winning wines have been produced by the Bruwer family for 3 generations. Andre and his sons, Jacques and Pieter, have orchestrated the whole estate into a thoughtfully managed wine producing operation, thus guaranteeing consistent and continuous product perfection.
This dry Gewurztraminer has typical spiciness and hints of rose petals on the nose. Elegant and lively finish.
Bosbrand Carignan
Natural red with rich, floral and spicy notes of stewed plum and red cherry. It hails from two vineyards – the first is the oldest Carignan vineyard in South Africa (planted in 1979); the second a smaller vineyard planted in 2003.
Lanzerac Chardonnay
This full-bodied Chardonnay showcases prominent primary citrus aromas on the nose followed by a complexity of flavours including lemon, clover, ginger and vanilla. The palate reveals an excellent balance between fruit, acidity and softness with a lingering aftertaste.
Iona Sophie Te Blanche Sauvignon Blanc
Floral notes with a complex medley of tropical fruits, mingled with subtle lime and gooseberry undertones. The palate is balanced and rich, showing cut green apples with great minerality and texture.
Lanzerac Cabernet Sauvignon
Lanzerac Wine Estate produces award winning wines of excellence and superior quality. As a point of interest, Lanzerac bottled the first Pinotage in the world. Their Cabernet is a full-bodied wine with excellent structure and a lingering aftertaste.
Lanzerac Pinotage
Lanzerac wine estate, Stellenbosch is a 330 year old winery with a rich history, producing award winning wines of excellence and superior quality. As a matter of interest, Lanzerac bottled the first Pinotage in the world. This wine has flavours of berries and plums on the palate, and a velvety chocolate finish.
Raats Dolomite Cabernet Franc
The nose shows dark and red cherry. Dark berries, spiciness and herbs linger on the palate. The wine has great purity of fruit with a hint of wet-stone minerality and a velvet soft finish.
AA Badenhorst Secateurs Chenin Blanc
Badenhurst Family wines are grown, made and matured in the Swartland appellation of South Africa making natural wines on their 60 hectare estate. One of the first wines we stocked when we first opened, and still just as good.
Adi Badenhorst’s Secateurs Chenin Blanc is probably the best bang-for-buck white wine we’ve ever sold. Why is this wine so special? Why does it win so much rapturous admiration? Because it surprises people with its quality. This is immensely mouth-watering – struck rock, clotted cream and orange blossom, with a lightly creamy, zingy finish. Pair with pork chops, seared tuna and soft cheeses.
Badenhorst Secateurs Red Blend
Badenhurst Family wines are grown, made and matured in the Swartland appellation of South Africa making natural wines on their 60 hectare estate. One of the first wines we stocked when we first opened, and still just as good. Amazing quality for the price, matured in concrete vats; this has perfumed and peppery aromas, supple and smooth on the palate with enough grip and freshness to finish dry and refreshing. If you like spicy French Southern Rhone wines then give this a whirl.
Pairs well with roast lamb, venison and mushroom stroganoff.
Iona Sauvignon Blanc
A more refined style of Sauvignon from high above the Elgin Valley, this is one of the best South African Sauvignons we’ve ever tried. Packed full of grapefruit, apples and gooseberry flavours.
Holden Manz Chenin Blanc
Winemaker Thierry Haberer has been making wines around the world for over a decade. He has spent time working in Bordeaux and Napa Valley in the USA before settling at the Holden Manz Wine Estate in Franschhoek Valley, one of South Africa’s premiere winemaking regions. The estate boasts 22 hectares of exclusively red grape varieties; Cabernet Sauvignon, Merlot, Cabernet Franc and Syrah.
Featuring a nose and palate of peach, melon and quince along with buttered broche and honey on the finish from a judicious use of oak, this Chenin Blanc is rich and utterly charming.
Pair it with roast chicken, pulled pork or fresh tuna and your tastebuds will thank you forever…
Holden Manz Vernissage
Holden Manz Wine Estate, known as Franschhoek’s hidden gem, is located in the southernmost corner of the stunningly beautiful Franschhoek Valley.
75kW of solar panels provide electricity and a 40,000 litre roof water collection system supplements the underground water supply.
Raspberries, cherries, mulberry flavours, with soft and silky tannins and a lingering finish. Pair with slow cooked lamb stew or your favourite pizza/pasta dish.
Jordan Mellifera Natural Sweet Riesling
Delicate and floral with a ripe apricot and spring blossom bouquet and the well-balanced acidity adds elegance to the long, rich finish.
Testalonga Baby Bandito Keep On Punching
A pure style of Chenin Blanc from nearly 50 year old vines that produce small clusters full of concentration and a high natural acidity. Lemon aromas and flavours with some peach, floral and flint notes. A very interesting wine for both lovers of natural wine and those new to the style.
Testalonga Baby Bandito Follow Your Dreams
“Follow your Dreams” is a quote made famous by the street artist, Banksy, who says “All art is stolen” so they stole his quote. A fresh palate with cherry and raspberry flavours. Balanced yet grippy.
Craig Hawkins is a young winemaker based in the Swartland, South Africa, where he rents about 11ha of vineyard, farmed organically and biodynamically. Having travelled extensively throughout Europe, and then worked as wine maker for Lammershoek, he now makes makes a huge variety of different wines under his own Testalonga label.
Bon Courage Jacques Bruere Cap Classique Brut Reserve
A fantastic tasting and amazing value fizz from South Africa. Made in the traditional ‘Champagne’ method, this wine is quite fruit driven with peach and citrus at the forefront, some toasted nuts character complements the stone fruits and creamy biscuit flavours. A wine for all occasions!
Holden Manz Proprietors Blend White
Winemaker Thierry Haberer has been making wines around the world for over a decade. He has spent time working in Bordeaux and Napa Valley in the USA before settling at the Holden Manz Wine Estate in Franschhoek Valley, one of South Africa’s premiere winemaking regions. The estate boasts 22 hectares of exclusively red grape varieties; Cabernet Sauvignon, Merlot, Cabernet Franc and Syrah.
The grapes for this white blend (40% Viognier, 40% Chardonnay and 20% Chenin Blanc) were hand selected from a variety of locations in Somerset West, Stellenbosch, Wellington and Paarl. They combine magnificently to produce a beautifully rounded, full bodied and well balanced wine. A bright, flinty nose with lime, green apples, tangerine and honeysuckle. The wine has had 12 month’s lees contact, adding creaminess and complexity. Absolutely sublime.
We love this wine with seared tuna steaks, tempura prawns with sweet chilli dipping sauce and mushroom wellington.
Savage Salt River Sauvignon Blanc
In 2019 Duncan Savage stumbled across a 32 year old block of vines in Stellenbosch, a vineyard with the right elevation, warmth and wind for Sauvignon Blanc. And so the Salt River Sauvignon Blanc was born. Impressive flavours of grapefruit peel, white citrus and peach liqueur. Concentrated fruit flavours and purity makes this a wine for all Sauvignon lovers, from novices to connoisseurs.
Tokara Reserve Selection Sauvignon Blanc
This 100% Sauvignon blanc is made from grapes grown on Tokara’s Highlands farm in Elgin. This wine is blended from a handful of the top performing blocks on this property each chosen for their exquisite flavour and aromatic profile.
Blank Bottle Master of None
A madcap blend of Grenache, Cinsault, Pinot Noir and Pinotage, with 16% white grape varieties blended in too. Very juicy, very drinkable! Serve chilled – lots of strawberry juice, cherry and earthy notes too, blackcurrant leaf and pomegranate. It’s a fun little wine to not be taken too seriously. Like Pieter’s answer to a Beaujolais-villages and ultimate ‘vin de soif.’
Blank Bottle Moment Of Silence
Clothes maketh not the man; judge the wines on what’s in the bottle, not by means of preconceived ideas. Aromas of candied lemon, cooked apple and mango with a core of minerality. Soft and voluptuous, it has a lovely ripeness and a fleshy, creamy mouthfeel, which leads to a perfect tangy freshness giving some zip to its otherwise mellow feel.
Keermont Terrasse
Keermont Estate may well take the prize for most beautiful vineyards and views in all of South Africa. And yup, there’s some pretty stiff competition! Nestled in a natural amphitheatre between the Stellenbosch and Helderberg mountains, their ambition is to produce wines that reflect the natural wonders of this exquisite place.
61% Chenin Blanc, 13% Sauvignon Blanc, 23% Chardonnay and 3% Viognier, with the backbone of the Chenin blanc from a 40 year old, unirrigated vineyard called ‘Riverside’. One of the great things about Keermont is that they never rush to release their wines, so it’s developed some nicely waxy notes, pear tarte tatin, butterscotch and honeysuckle, macadamia nuts with a herbal, both sweet meadow and fresh green herb palate and long, tangy finish.
Blank Bottle Orbitofrontal Cortex
The best blend of white grapes, with a crazy story of how the wine came to be made! The blend includes Verdelho, Palomino, Riesling, Chenin, Crouchen and Viognier, producing flavours of aniseed, pepper spice and wet stone with notes of peach and creamy lees.
Blank Bottle Jaaa-Bru!!
If you translate the word “Mal” from Afrikaans to English, it means “crazy” and “Bek” means “mouth”. And that was quite clearly the inspiration behind this label! This is of course 100% Malbec from the Helderberg.
Like dark chocolate dipped oranges, with lovely minty notes, violets and a sweet perfume. Medium-full bodied, and very much so showing the softer, prettier side of Malbec, with gentle tannins, good freshness, and a lovely rounded mouthfeel.
Keermont Merlot
Keermont Vineyards is a specialist wine estate set in the naturally-formed amphitheatre between the Helderberg and Stellenbosch Mountain ranges.
This is a stunning Merlot, with just a drop of Cabernet Sauvignon. Dusty strawberry on the nose with notes of cinnamon. Elegant, clean palate of orange and dried herbs. Good natural acidity helps maintain a fresh elegance and long, juicy finish.
Blank Bottle Jimmy
Every one of Pieter’s wines is a story, rather than a grape variety, and it’s the juice inside the bottle which reveals that story. He doesn’t own any vines, but instead scours South Africa’s winelands for top-quality fruit that has somehow slipped under the radar.
100% Verdelho from the Voor Paardeberg. It’s rich, it’s ripe, it’s opulent, but so well-balanced. Keylime pie, mango and hints of cardamon, with the most lovely lushness to the palate, like a whipped creamy pudding and hints of ginger too. It goes exceptionally well with Thai food. If you like your whites bold and big, this is for you – slightly later picked, but very fresh and high acidity.
Holden Manz Big G
Located in the top, southern-most corner of the Franschhoek Valley, in the embrace of its spectacular mountains, the 22 hectare Holden Manz Wine Estate is situated between the Franschhoek River and Stony Brook at 300 meters above sea level. An exclusive grower of red grapes, the Estate only cultivates its top 16 hectares under vineyards, notably Cabernet Sauvignon, Cabernet Franc, Syrah and Merlot.
Keermont Syrah
Sourced from three different vineyards, and with a drop of Mourvedre added to the blend, the 2017 Syrah is inky in colour and with dark fruit, but surprisingly nimble – violets, mulberries and a little sizzling bacon fat. On the palate there’s fabulous hot cross bun flavours – all candied peel and baking spice and pepper, matched with savoury fynbos and brush and a little caraway. The finish is very fine with refreshing acidity and a certain crunchiness to the fruit. Delish!
Holden Manz Semillon Reserve
A 20-year-old patch of Franschhoek grown grapes within sight of Holden Manz produced a yield of around 7 tonnes per hectare. Grapes were manually harvested early in the morning, refrigerated to 5C before undergoing whole bunch press.
Stoney minerality, mango and a whiff of coriander seed are present in a complex aroma. Palate: Full bodied, dense with tropical fruit mid-palate. Cleansing acidity, long finish with a touch of oak at the edge.
Limited production of 2,858 bottles produced.
Lourens Family Wines, Howard John
Named after Franco Lourens’ father, whose image features on the label, this is a such a charming red blend of Grenache, Cinsault and Syrah, all sourced from dryfarmed bush vines in the Swartland. The whole bunches bring gorgeous perfume, not just bright fruit, but lots of freshly cracked black peppercorns over pomegranate, pretty florals and hints of Asian spice. Such vibrancy on the palate with tissue paper fine tannins.
Testalonga ‘El Bandito’ Skin Contact Chenin Blanc
Named after both an old Italian winemaker that made white wines like red wines and a Sicilian bandit named Testalonga.
With fresh apple as the predominant flavour that you want from a Chenin Blanc and a vivacity and texture that gives it excellent composure.
Testalonga El Bandito Cortez
Aromas of wild honey and freshly baked bread which contrast with its dry, very racy texture. Core flavours are remeniscent of Asian fruits with a minerality that comes through. Similar to Jura in style but distinctively New World. Fascinating Chenin showing how South Africa is becoming a very exciting country for natural wine with life and vigour!
Blank Bottle The Spaniard
Another triumph from Blank bottle. Our customers just can’t get enough of these wines! Tiny quantities made – just 3 barrels. This is big, but very well-balanced. Soft, juicy, rounded and loaded with fresh blackberries and blueberries, candied fruits and a kiss of vanilla. A gorgeous, rounded wine that looks and tastes flippin amazing.
Iona Solace
Layers of bramble and red berry fruit, with spicy, peppery aromas. Energetic and lightly rich palate that emphasises floral elements. The cool climate of the vineyards help to keep the ripeness of fruit in check, giving great freshness.
Holden Manz Reserve Chenin Blanc
Located in the top, southern-most corner of the Franschhoek Valley,…