Provenance

Wine Cellar Private Client

Critics Ratings

‘Bright medium red. Captivating high-pitched nose combines crushed red cherry and raspberry, rose petal and violet; real Burgundian perfume here. Then tight, bright and sharply delineated, offering terrific cut and floral lift to its pungent red fruit and orange zest flavors. Finishes with outstanding subtle length. This is totally different in style from all the vintages before it; following his experience in 2007, Sadie picked this vintage earlier as well. This wonderfully pure wine will merit an even higher score if it deepens with more bottle age.’ - Stephen Tanzer, Vinous, 95+/100 (Jan 2015)

'Deep blood crimson. Very perfumed and lifted, forest berries and night flowers and garrigue-scented. Very taut and tight on the palate, the most tailored wine of all – Saville Row tannins with exquisitely stitched seams, achingly elegant. A long mineral backbone, yet fleshy red currant and cherry fruit, tangy and pert with a gently earthy undertow. There is a real prancing and life to this wine, a new precision and deftness. Intense and incredibly beautiful.' - Tamlyn Currin, JancisRobinson.com, 18.5/20 (Jun 2011)

'Well-composed 2008 complex, mineral & earthy; finely structured with pinpoint acidity, classic tannins. As sensual as brilliant 2007 (5 stars) with its gravel-tinged fruit. Always shiraz with 20% mourv, basket press; 2 yrs Fr oak, new component down to only 20%.' - Platter’s SA Wine Guide 2020, 4.5*

'The 2008 Columella is a Shiraz based blend with a little Mourvèdre grown on mainly granite soils and aged for two years in barrels. It has a very distinct bouquet with vibrant, well defined, wild dark berried fruit intermingling with subtle aromas of dark plum, blackberry leaf and a touch of cassis all with great precision. The palate is medium-bodied with fine but sturdy tannins, supremely well balanced with superb acidity and expression, finishing with great mineralité on the finish that has slight blur of alcohol' - Neal Martin, Wine Advocate, 92/100 (Aug 2011)