91 points. Although it took a little while to open up, the wine eventually expresses itself beautifully, with deep notes of crushed purple florals, black cherry and blueberry along with a hint of game. Lush and full with a stainy texture, the mouth is heady and satisfying with a concentrated fruit core supported by cedar and mocha on the close. This is a blend from 2 different elevation vineyards on our Jonkershoek Valley farm. The higher elevation vineyard has a finely textured decomposed granite soil and tends to produce a more elegant wine with softer tannin, while the lower vineyard is very rocky and seems to give a denser, more tannic wine. The grapes for this wine were hand-harvested in mid-February and cooled overnight to 12 degrees C., before being carefully hand-sorted and crushed into small open fermentation vats. The must was cold-soaked for a couple of days before being inoculated with a mix of domestic and imported RhAAne yeasts. About 30 of the wine underwent natural