SA Wine Guide 2025

Fernfield Wines The Old River Red Shiraz Cabernet Sauvignon 2021 Cherries and plums. Plush and approachable palate with touch of toasted spice and crunchy acid. Geddes Wines Seldom Inn Grenache & Company 2022 Cranberry and redskin lolly. Some juicy fruit in there as well. Lovely floral kick that translates through to the palate. Impressive Forbes & Forbes Alexander Murray Cabernet Sauvignon Merlot Cabernet Franc 2015 Tobacco leaf, savoury, spice, clean cut fruit for a wine with some bottle age Red Blends Mount Benson Estate Syrah Cabernet Sauvignon 2019 Good colour nice density, nice ripe lifted aroma black fruits concentration. Not jammy, nice black concentrated fruits, still holding freshness from V19 Gomersal Wines Lyndoch Road Shiraz Mataro 2021 Amazing colour, super ripe aroma. Oak and cooked concentrated fruit Palate still holds freshness for the degree of ripeness Sussex Squire Wines The Partnership Shiraz Mataro 2022 Great colour, nice purple, fresh plush blue black fruit aroma. Uber concentration, nice power. Whistler Wines Divergent Shiraz Grenache Mataro 2023 Nice lifted perfume, touch VA lift, red fruit and blood plum. Bright and textural mouthfeel, firm and fine tannin, nice savoury grip. Three Dark Horses Grenache Touriga Nacional 2023 Candied florals, lifted with some bunchy action. Super clean and bright and vivacious, palate just finished with a broad slip Three Dark Horses Shiraz Grenache Touriga 2022 Blackcurrant tea leaf, some nice flesh on the bones, tomato bush, leafy notes. Mid weight, bright fruited

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