Light, bright colour; intense nutty, spicy, balsamic bouquet with dried flowers and assorted spices galore, the palate tremendously intense and powerful, loaded with a myriad flavours and a multi-layered reosnance that lingers ion and on. A profound wine that exists on a higher level than most sauvignon blanc. 10 JAN 2024

Fermented in 100% French oak with 30% new. Fruit forward wine that gains complexity from a sauvignon blanc blend with semillon and sauvignon gris. Creamy-textured wine with grapefruit and redcurrant flavours against a background of nutty yeast lees and spicy oak 17 JAN 2024

Pete Cowley was one of the greats who should be included in the pantheon of ‘wonderful people who made top shelf wine’, and his baton was handed over to Phil Brodie a few years ago, who’s kind of cut from the same cloth. I know we judge what’s in the glass, and that’s what matters, but still, it’s kind of nice when the people who put the wine into your glass are exceptional humans who combine talent with humility. If only I could say the same of myself! 88% sauvignon blanc, 7% sauvignon gris and 5% semillon.

Cape gooseberry, guava, cream, spice, cut grass and snow pea. Medium-bodied, grapefruit segments, a little thistle and spice, glossy with a firm cut of juicy acidity and subtle flinty texture, aniseed and perfume, pineapple and creamed rice richness, with a pithy finish of excellent length. It has bite, zest and tang, glide and viscosity, and well, it’s Cape Crest writ large. Excellent.