“Gloriously mouth coating, hedonistic and persistent with just the most subtle sappy, pithy, bitter orange peel vermouth twang.” - Greg Sherwood MW, 98+ points

An extraordinary, one-off straw wine sourced from a Muscat of Alexandria vineyard planted in 1882! Deep amber in colour, it has intense aromas and flavours of apricot, candied orange peel, medjool dates, raisins and salted caramel. The texture is rich and unctuous, similar to a Pedro Ximenez and would be amazing to drink with hard cheeses or duck liver parfait (they do something similar with PX in Jerez and it’s amazing!) or with a fruit-based dessert. 7% alc. Only 220 cases produced. Drink now-2070.

Press review:

Greg Sherwood MW: “Looking at this rich, unctuous wine in the glass is akin to gazing through an ancient piece of Jurassic fossilised amber – ripe, captivating and most definitely warmly inviting. But this is no normal sweet wine and one sniff of the rich, ripe, potent aromatics reveals an enchanting bouquet of freshly boiled marmalade jam, green mango preserve, barley sugar, sweet herbs, wet straw and dried apricots. Give the dense, glycerol wine another slow swirl in a big Zalto Bordeaux bowl and it shifts gears again to offer yet more pithy orange peel nuances and seductive notes of quince jelly, pressed grapes and burnt caramel. Like some of South Africa’s other truly great sweet wines, the aromatics are so complex and seductive that you almost forget to sip the wine! Incredibly viscous and fleshy on the palate with a round glycerol opulence, there is no suggestion at any point that this wine is going to be overly sweet and clawing with its 450 g/l RS. In fact the sweetness is kept smartly in check by a searing acidity that scythes through the caramel and barley sugar laden fruit layers with samurai sword precision. The finish is gloriously mouth coating, hedonistic and persistent with just the most subtle sappy, pithy, bitter orange peel vermouth twang.” 98+ points