4 ½ Stars 2023 Platter’s South African Wine Guide

Sophisticated crafting of the flagship grape, with compelling earthy minerality, brooding blackcurrant fruit laced with tealeaf & liquorice, 20 (94 pts) maintains impressive standard. Sleek, textured & supple, polished 14 months in oak barrels.

90 points James Suckling Dec 2022
A perfumed nose of crushed blackcurrants, blackberries, gravel and toasted herbs. Full-bodied with creamy tannins. Black-fruited and rather salty on the palate. Even balance with a mouthwatering finish. Drink now.

92 pts Tim Atkin MW 2022

Guillermo is a 70/30 blend of grapes from the Kasteelsig and Leeuwenkuil farms and is aged in a combination of French, American and Eastern European oak. Smoky, spicy and intense, it partners Pinotage with a splash of Syrah and shows plum and summer pudding flavours, serious tannins and stony minerality. 2023-28

4 ½ Stars 2023 Platter’s South African Wine Guide

Always-excellent pinotage honouring longtime grower Billy ‘Guillermo’ Hughes. 20 (90 pts) vibrant & juicy with subtle spice & soft tannins. Blended from BH’s Kasteelsig, with 10% syrah & other Swartland fruit. Wild yeasts, year in 20% new oak, 40% American.

92 pts Tim Atkin MW 2022

Made with grapes from only the second crop of Syrah on this beautiful Paarl estate, this is a remarkable debut. Fermented with 30% whole bunches, it's fresh, spicy and peppery, with understated power, violet, bramble and raspberry fruit and subtle oak sweetness. 2022-26