Description
This vineyard is the highest in the area, sitting around 320m with Kayleigh’s plot framed between two massive granite boulders, buffeted by cold sea breezes. The cooling influences of altitude and the cape winds create a perfumed nose and fresh cracked black pepper character that wonderfully enticing. Yet the palate is more brooding, loaded with ripe damsons and black olive tapenade, finishing on a gamey note. The tannins are classic Syrah, fine grained but pleasingly chunky and the lasting impression is a balance of elegance and oomph, like a rumbling cello.
Winemaker Kayleigh is bright, funny, and vivacious, and her personality really comes across in the wines she makes. Despite also being the winemaker at Kaapzicht – one of the major names in the area – in her mid-twenties, Kayleigh speaks with real sense of humility.
12% / 75cl
