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Waterkloof Cape Coral Mourvedre Rosé 2023
Regular price £15.75 Sale price £14.75A fine pale-coloured rosé with delicate aromas of pomegranates and raspberry and a distinctive flintiness. There’s finesse and elegance on the palate with flavours of soft red fruits, a gentle silky texture and a lingering fresh acidity on the finish.
If you ask someone what is their favourite wine, most would mention a red or a white. Very few would give a rosé. But, (for us) South Africa has taken the 'common' rosé and turned it into an art form.
Such a delicate and perfumed rosé. Take a bit of sophisticated Provence rosé, give it a little hint of international dynamic, a little bit of relaxed "take me as I am" S'African personality and the result is this deliciously drinkable rosé from Stellenbosch.
Country: South Africa
Region: Schapenberg, Stellenbosch
Grapes: Mourvedre
ABV: 13%
Biodynamic and Organic
Winemaker Nadia Barnard:
In October 2022 Penny had the great pleasure of visiting Waterkloof Estate on the slopes of the Schapenberg, Stellenbosch with a few colleagues from the UK wine trade. They spent the good part of two days being driven around this beautiful, sustainably managed piece of land by winemaker, Nadia Barnard. All of the vineyards on the estate are farmed following organic and biological principles. Here at Cellar Door Wines we've always been huge fans of Waterkloof wines. It is always lovely to taste Nadia's wines in Saint Albans, but to be able to do so at Waterkloof, with the woman herself, was extra special. Tasting wine at the place of its birth explains the why and the how of its individuality. The people behind the vineyard and winery are also key components in the equation. The Cape and Waterkloof has such diversity of wine style with a great price quality ratio.
Waterkloof Circumstance Biodynamic Sauvignon Blanc 2023
Regular price £15.95Crushed laurel on the nose with more than a nuance of residual seaside salt.... or if you want a less pretentious description...bl**dy delicious!
Country: South Africa
Region: Stellenbosch
Grapes: Sauvignon Blanc
ABV: 13%
Vegan, Vegetarian friendly
Biodynamic
This has a big and textured palate with stone fruit and fennel hints – it is rich and minerally, showing even a slight rocky quality about it. As bracing as the wind through the vines at Waterkloof.
Founded by Paul Boutinot in 2004 this majestic and fully-fledged biodynamic estate is perched high on top of hill overlooking the Western Cape’s False Bay and produces delicately fine wines with a real sense of place.
Wild House Chenin Blanc 2024
Regular price £10.95Ripe peach and tropical fruit on the nose with fresh citrus notes. Honeyed and textured on the palate with crisp acidity and hints of honey dew melon and lychee leading to a bright, zesty finish with fresh lemony acidity.
Country: South Africa
Region: Western Cape
Grapes: Chenin Blanc
ABV: 13%
Food Match: Brilliant with seafood, poultry, chargrilled vegetables.
Doran Vineyards ARYA 2024
Regular price £14.95A fresh, crisp and fruity Chenin with a dash of Sauvignon Blanc. Complex beyond its style with flavours of pear, white peach and lychee.
Country: South Africa
Region: Voor Paardeberg
Grapes: Chenin, Sauvignon Blanc
ABV: 13%
Groote Post Merlot 2021
Regular price £16.95Elegant plum and raspberry nose, followed by a juicy mulberry palate. Just a hint of South Africanness that can make one nostalgic for the Cape winelands if you happen to be in that frame of mind...
Country: South Africa
Region: Darling
Grapes: Merlot
ABV: 14.5%
Groote Post is an historic 18th century farm just outside the quaint town of Darling. Nearby Atlantic coastal breezes make for slow a ripening season giving the wines optimum flavour and producing distinctive flavours.
Neil Ellis Whitehall Chardonnay 2020
Regular price £31.00Straw like colour with greenish hues. Attractive aromas of nectarine, hints of lemon zest and white flower notes. The pallet has great texture and depth and finishes with beautifully balanced acidity, long and flavoursome mid pallet with rich texture reflect conditions of the vintage.
Country: South Africa
Region: Elgin
Grapes: Chardonnay
ABV: 13%
This is a Chardonnay of great purity, reflecting site and the season in which it was grown. Meticulous attention and care in the vineyard is most critical in allowing that expression. Elgin is one of the Cape’s coolest wine growing areas with favourable climatic, soil and topographic conditions.
De Trafford Chenin Blanc 2019
Regular price £29.95WOW! What a stunning wine. One of the best wines from South Africa.
A full and rich wine with great depth of flavour and character. There are aromas and flavours of ripe apricots, honey and tropical fruit with a touch of vanilla oak and crisp citrus fruit.
Country: South Africa
Region: Stellenbosch (nestled between the Stellenbosch and Helderberg Mountains
ABV: 13.5%
Grapes: Chenin Blanc
Food Match: Fish dishes, shellfish and sushi
David Trafford is one of South Africa’s most individual winemakers. David is completely self-taught, save for a few months working a vintage in St Emilion. By trade he is an architect but in 1983 he decided to plant a small vineyard for fun. In 1991 David turned his part-time hobby into a full-time career. More than twenty years on, he is one of South Africa’s most decorated winemakers.
Label by Rita Trafford: 'Helichrysum Dreaming'
Doran Vineyards Honor D Red 2022
Regular price £15.95Very Rhone -like style of Shiraz/ Grenache. Earthy, with spicy notes and hints of black berries. Very rich and ripe, but juicy and easy drinking.
Country: South Africa
Region: Voor Paardeberg
Grapes: 75% Shiraz 25%Grenache Noir
ABV: 14%
Hermanuspietersfontein Kleinboet Red 2020
Regular price £21.95Kleinboet (‘little brother’) is a Cellar Door all time favourite. Bright red and purple fruit such as raspberries and blueberries on the nose, savoury notes of dried herbs too. A delicious, rich, bold, earthy, but fruity Bordeaux blend.
Country: South Africa
Region: Sondagskloof, Hemel en Aarde
Grapes: Bordeaux Blend of Cabernet Sauvignon, Merlot, Petit Verdot, Cabernet Franc and Malbec
ABV: 12.5%
You might have heard of the quaint beach town of Hermanus, situated on South Africa’s
famous Whale Coast. Between 1855 and 1902, it was called Hermanuspietersfontein. In
1902, the local postmaster decided to shorten the name of the town to make addressing
letters to the locals easier.
150 years later, the wine farm Hermanuspietersfontein, or HPF for short, craft outstanding wines with a serious sense of place. Their grapes come from Sondagskloof (they produce 90% of WO Sondagskloof wine), which competes with Elgin and the Ceres Plateau for South Africa’s coolest wine growing region. This area is perfectly suited to Bordeaux varietals and, with the exception of Shiraz, is exclusively planted with them.
The Afrikaans wine names might look like a bit of a mouthful, but they are good fun;
Bloos (‘blush’), Kaalvoet Meisie (‘barefoot girl’), Kat Met Die Houtbeen (‘cat with the
wooden leg’), Posmeester (‘postmaster’), Kleinboet (‘little brother’) and Swartskaap
(‘black sheep’).
Springfield Estate Wild Yeast Chardonnay 2021
Regular price £21.00A deliciously complex Chardonnay from the iconic Springfield Estate in South Africa.
This fresh white wine has flavours of pineapple and pear drops. Deliciously complex in style.
Country: South Africa
Region: Robertson
ABV:13%
Variety: Chardonnay
Springfield Estate goes against the grain in order to make sure the drinking experience is perfect at the consumer end and sustainable at its end. The wines are all about the rocky, unforgiving terroir of Robertson, and stand head and shoulders above most producers for sheer quality.
Doran Chenin Blanc Reserve 2023
Regular price £17.95Honey, ripe peach and citrus aromas and flavours with lovely long, fresh finish. A fantastic foody, versatile Chenin that can accompany many dishes.
Country: South Africa
Region: Voor Paardeberg
Grapes: Chenin Blanc
ABV: 13%
Food Match: Parma ham, peach and goat's cheese tart.
Food Match: Great with seafood, salads and creamy pasta dishes.
Doran Incipio 2019
Regular price £17.95A unique version of a Cote-Rotie blending Shiraz and a small percentage of Chenin.
Floral, with crunchy, fresh red and black fruits on the nose with a rich, but elegant palate of cocoa, blackberries and sweet spice.
Country: South Africa
Region: Voor Paardeberg
Grapes: Shiraz and Chenin Blanc
ABV: 14%
Lismore Cape South Coast Pinot Noir 2021
Regular price £44.95A complex bouquet of crushed rose petals, wild jasmine and fresh French herbs. The palate shows beautiful purity with layered red fruits, cranberry, raspberry, silky tannins and a long, savoury finish.
Country: South Africa
Region: Walker Bay and Elgin, Western Cape
Grapes: Pinot Noir
ABV: 13.5%
70% of the grapes came from Stanford, Walker Bay and 30% from Elgin, both in the cool climate region Cape South Coast. The vines are all Burgundian, clone 115. The Stanford vineyard is close to the southernmost tip of Africa and is located in one of South Africa’s coolest wine producing regions. The maritime vineyard enjoys a long ripening season, because of the strong cooling winds that are prevalent in the summer. This microclimate is ideal for creating a long hang time, concentrating the flavours in the berries, while retaining natural acidity levels. Elgin is situated at 400
metres above sea level and ripens even later then the coastal vineyard. The vines
here, planted in shale and clay soils, produce fleshier fruit, adding weight to the final
blend.
Creation Viognier 2023
Regular price £21.95Walker Bay in South Africa is becoming a shining example of how Stellenbosch no longer holds the mantle of 'best region' in South Africa - there are now other contenders.
Abundantly fruity on the nose with fragrant white peach aromas mingling with a rich, creamy character. These follow well onto the palate and combine seamlessly with crisp minerality and natural acidity.
Country: South Africa
Region: Walker Bay
ABV: 13%
Grapes: Viognier
Since founding Creation in 2002, Jean-Claude and Carolyn have led conservation efforts for the area, becoming one of only nine wineries in South Africa to receive EnviroWines accreditation. It’s not simply an audit, but scientific measurement of every management practice.
Silver Myn Argentum 2022
Regular price £11.95This is superb value for money, a Merlot dominant Bordeaux blend from the slopes of Stellenbosch's Simonsberg Mountain.
Country: South Africa
Region: Bankhoek, Stellenbosch
Grapes: Merlot, Cabernet Sauvignon, Cabernet Franc
ABV: 14.5%
This blend from the Bordelaise specialists of Banghoek Valley is brim full of ripe, bramble and plummy fruit with dark curranty corners. Bright, fresh and gently leafy on the finish.
Waas Semillon - Skin Macerated 2024
Regular price £12.95Textured and delightfully sippable, this orange wine is incredibly accessible, immediately greeting your senses with aromas of ripe peach and apricot. Naturally fermented and macerated on the skins with twice-daily punch downs to increase flavour and texture, before being put through a basket press. Once pressed, this juice is left to settle in tank before being transferred to concrete eggs and flexcubes, then into bottle. This is all about marrying the technique of skin maceration with brilliant drinkability to give a South African wine that’s textured and delicious.
Country: South Africa
Region: WO Paarl
Grape: Semillon
ABV: 12,5
Style: Orange, Natural, Vegan
Heilan Coo Grenache Blanc 2022
Regular price £14.50Crisp peach, under-ripe pineapple, honeysuckle and a touch of tangerine, fresh and crisp white that doesn’t lack for intensity or length.
Country: South Africa
Region: Western Cape
Grapes: Grenache Blanc
ABV: 13%
Warwick Estate The First Lady Pinotage 2022/23
Regular price £15.95Supple, soft and juicy Pinotage that's just sooo easy drinking,,. Packed full of bright notes of red cherry, strawberry and ripe plums, with a subtle hint of spice and cedar on the finish.
Country: South Africa
Region: Stellenbosch
Grapes: Pinotage
ABV: 14%
Angus Paul White Blend ‘Orange Wine’ 2022/24
Regular price £18.95This delightful orange wine is made of mostly Muscat with a touch of Semillon. It makes for a beautifully fresh and bright wine with bold notes of apricot, candied lemon and a touch of sea salt and nuts for that lovely fresh bite. The 10 days on skins gives a chewy wine gum notes with fine tannin to coat the palate and an oxidative nutty finish. Fresh and complex, making a fantastic gastronomic South African wine.
Country: South Africa
Region: Stellenbosch
Grapes: Muscat (89%)
Semillon (11%)
ABV: 13%
Food Match: Oysters or Japanese cuisine
Stellenbosch, this famous region, is 30 miles north east of Cape Town yet still close enough to the ocean to benefit from cool maritime conditions. These beautiful vineyards are dominated by scenic mountains and the region is home to some of the Cape`s most famous and influential wine estates. The most noted and important vineyards are located on the prized slopes of the Simonsberg Mountain. This small and highly rated sub-zone has fantastic terroir and is where many of South Africa`s top red cuvees are produced.
Angus Paul had their first vintage in 2020, creating wines with a focus on South African Heritage, using Chenin, Muscat and Pinotage soon expanding with Cinsault. The wines are made with minimal intervention to make quality wines that truly express the varieties characteristics. The labels are inspired by the ‘Age of exploration’ when the South African wine industry was founded, with graphics of superstitious tales from exploratory sailors.
Neil Ellis Piekenierskloof Grenache 2017
Regular price £34.95Bright ruby colour. Vibrant red fruit with spicy peppery aromas which flows on to the palate. The palate has a lovely freshness, great length and fine grippy tannins. The wine is ever evolving in the glass.
Country: South Africa
Region: Piekenierskloof
Grapes: Grenache
ABV: 14%
This limited release wine demonstrate the distinctiveness of specific vineyard sites
and represents Neil Ellis's finest quality. The mountain vineyards of Piekenierskloof are
known to produce outstanding Grenache.
Creation Pinot Noir 2020
Regular price £27.95A full bodied style of Pinot Noir this vintage. Deep ruby in colour. Intensely fragrant bouquet of red berry aromas, elegant vanilla and a touch of wood spice. These follow through on the full-bodied palate where soft, supple tannins contribute to the dense structure. Well balanced with a lingering aftertaste. Yummy!
Country: South Africa
Region: Hemel en Aarde
Grapes: Pinot Noir
ABV: 14%
Blackwater ‘Pleasure Garden’ Palomino 2021
Regular price £23.95One could easily confuse this with Riesling because of its petrol aromas on the nose. Wonderful tropical notes with a subtle creamy finish. Wow, we love this wine!
Grape: Palomino
Country: South Africa
Region: Robertson
ABV: 12.5%
Vegan
Eikendal Janina Unwooded Chardonnay 2022
Regular price £17.95Notes of green apple, lemon and fresh pineapple. Nuances of honey and orange
blossoms develop on the palate which is carried through mid-palate with a delightful, fresh, flinty and lingering finish. If you like Chablis, you'll love this!
Country: South Africa
Region: Stellenbosch
Grapes: Chardonnay
ABV: 13.5
Eikendal Vineyards sit between the foothills of the Helderberg and the edge of Stellenbosch Mountains.
The Fox & The Flamingo Pinotage Rosé 2023
Regular price £16.95This elegant rose uses exclusively the free run juice of Pinotage, which is the first collected must when the grapes are moved into the press, essentially allowing the grapes to be crushed by gravity, ensuring a minimal extraction of colour from skins and also preserve the natural acidity. This style of production is typically very delicate giving fine, soft and very fruity wines. Rose gold in colour with aromas of fresh red fruits and floral notes. The palate is crisp and full of flavours of raspberry, strawberry and grapefruit, finishing with a distinctive savoury minerality.
Country: South Africa
Region:
ABV: 14%
Grapes: Pinotage
Food match: pairs well with Thai food, salad niçoise and charcuterie.
Black Elephant Vintners call themselves ‘Rebels of the Vine’ and are pushing the boundaries of a traditional industry and having fun with their wines as seen by their labels. Based in the quaint village of Franschhoek, Kevin, Jacques and Raymond came together to combine their diverse skills and creativity to make great wine. They took inspiration from their surnames to become the Black Elephant Vintners - Swart and Ndlovu become `Black Elephant` and Jacques is the Vintner! Their wines are inspired by good tunes and they firmly believe that music and wine make the best pairing - far from traditional and very Rock ‘n’ Roll!