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.

4 Stars 2023 Platter’s South African Wine Guide

Smooth, inviting 20 (88 pts) adds dashes of petit verdot & cab franc to its nicely rounded body. Riper dark plum, chocolate & a touch of earth in a supple tannin structure with gentle 20% oak.

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.

4 ½ Stars 2022 Platter’s South African Wine Guide

Sure-footed successor to elegant 18 (90 pts), 19 (90 pts) good core of herb-tinged black fruit, ripe & succulent. Density & concentration spot on, as is house’s signature quarter new-oak maturation for a year.

5 Stars 2023 Platter’s South African Wine Guide

From Helderberg granite & Bottelary gravels, rewarding 19 ***** (95 pts) ups bar (& merlot) on 18 (92 pts), partners cab & cab franc (43/16) create suave, confident 3-wy blend. Supple, seamless & integrated savoury mouthful. Dark fruit & spice mingle with oak, 24 months, 30% new.

4 ½ Stars 2023 Platter’s South African Wine Guide

Pinotage & cab 60/32 partners, spiced with a drop of cab franc in 20 (94 pts). Gentle handling & freshness add refinement, class to richly textured, ripe dark berries, seamlessly incorporated tannins. Polished in oak, 31% new, year. Last was 17.

92 pts Tim Atkin MW 2023

Back after a break in 2018 and 2019, Three Cape Ladies contains its highest-ever percentage of Pinotage, with 32% Cabernet Sauvignon and 8% Cabernet Franc completing the blend. Modern, juicy and aromatic, with good colour and density, scented 31% new oak and a macedoine of bramble, cassis and strawberry. 2023-28

90 pts James Suckling Oct 2022

This shows earthy and spicy character with dark fruit, chocolate and cedar on offer. Medium- to full-bodied with chalky tannins and a creamy texture. Ripe, yet vivid and juicy. Flavorful finish. A blend of 60% pinotage, 32% cabernet sauvignon and 8% cabernet franc. Sustainable. Drink now.