On the nose, aromas of pear, yellow apple and white peach, just a little yeasty complexity and definite vanilla. The palate is rich – good fruit concentration, bright acidity, the finish gently savoury – not at all an undistinguished effort but all that oak a little jarring.

confit pork belly.

climate

Continental climate.

soil

Deep, rocky terrace.

vinification

Fermented and matured for 16 months in 100% new French oak, this is Slanghoek’s attempt at the big time.