Provenance

The Distell Tabernacle - Stellenbosch

Critics Ratings

'Sobering to taste this wine from the first year I visited Australia when it seemed on the very edge of the wine map. Deep ruby with rust rim. Heady violet scent and even some passion fruit flavours. A meaty wine that is far from past it. Quite vibrant if not exactly fine. Quite long, though much more evolved and lighter than the 1982. Slightly drying on the finish.' - Jancis Robinson MW, JancisRobinson.com, 16.5/20 (Mar 2003)

'Superb complexity on the nose - spice, bacon, cherries, earth and violets with some background mint. The palate is all about elegance, the fantastically integrated acidity drives and stretches the gentle fruit out.' - Cellartracker, 95/100 (Jun 2014)