4 ½ Stars 2020 Platter’s South African Wine Guide

Elegant, stately 18 (94 pts) follows illustrious record with heady aromatics woven into generous, refined tropical fruit. 50% older-barrel-fermented fraction rounds out rich & plush texture, adding body & mouthfeel. Outstanding.

92 pts Tim Atkin MW 2020

In what Bruwer Raats rightly describes as a “very good vintage for whites”, this excellent wooded Chenin Blanc has come up trumps. Combining fruit from sandstone and granite soils over three parcels, with 50% of the resulting wine seeing oak, it has aromas of white flowers and a honeyed, peachy palate underpinned by stony minerality. 2020-25

92 pts Vinous April 2021

The 2018 Chenin Blanc Old Vine saw half the wine fermented and matured in 300- and 500-liter French oak barrels and half in stainless steel for 11 months. It has a clean, crisp bouquet displaying quite a prominent stoniness that lends a sense of reserve. The palate is well balanced with good weight and intensity on the entry, and lightly honeyed with a touch of spice toward the sappy finish.