The Chocolate Block 2023

It’s no mean achievement to produce 1.2 million bottles of a wine that’s as good and asconsistent as this. Based on Syrah, with the rest of the blend made up of 11% Grenache, 8%Cabernet Sauvignon, 6% Cinsault and 1% Viognier, it’s a seamless cuvée with fynbos, pepper and liquorice aromas, understated oak and flavours of blackberry, bramble and apricot skins. Drink date: 2025-2032. Score – 93. (timatkin.com, South Africa Special Report 2024)