News24 | Here they are: Tim Atkin’s top South African wines and winemakers for 2026

Tim Atkin MW: South Africa may be better prepared for wine's future than its competitors

Tim Atkin turned 65 while writing his 14th Special Report on South Africa this year, with no intention of retiring any time soon.

And having spent much of his life travelling the world's wine regions, there is something rather remarkable about the body of knowledge he's accumulated: the people, the places, the history, the relationships, the wines. It is a kind of boots-on-the-ground education that, with time, becomes more than a wine report.

“The ten things are the best I've done… every year the ten things get better because I build on the knowledge.”

This year, that knowledge spans 1 831 wines from more than 350 wineries, with one 100-point wine, Sadie Family Wines' Columella 2024 (the 2019 previously attained a 100-point rating), one 99-point wine, 2025 Alheit Vineyards Huilkrans Chenin Blanc, 17 wines at 98 points, 33 at 97 points and 248 wines scoring 95 points or more.

This year also sees a new addition to Tim's Podium: Winery of the Year, with Lismore Vineyards taking the inaugural title.

But the points are only the starting point.

“The core of the industry is history, it's politics, but it's mostly… people and stories. And networks.”

And perhaps the most interesting thing to emerge from my conversation with Tim ahead of the report's release is that, despite all the very real challenges facing South African wine, declining vineyard area, surplus wine and an increasingly difficult business for many growers, he is remarkably bullish about our future.

“I think South Africa is better prepared for climate change than any other country I know.”

That may sound surprising. But it is also one of the great strengths of South African wine: we are still a young enough New World wine country to be curious, experimental and willing to change. From the old-vine Chenin Tim rediscovered from the 1990s, to new generations of growers and winemakers exploring different sites, varieties and ways of farming, the story of South African wine is one of constant forward motion, with one foot firmly rooted in the past and in the soil.

And that history matters. Tim's research this year led him to Irina von Holdt's 1995 Old Vines Cellars Blue White Chenin Blanc, made from Kaapzicht's 1947 block with winemaker Cathy Marshall, a reminder that South Africa's Old Vine Chenin Movement is still remarkably young, with some of its founders still decidedly unsung.

Yet perhaps the biggest contradiction in South African wine remains that we can be producing some of the best wines in our history while the people growing some of our most valuable grapes struggle to make a sustainable living from them. Increasingly, growers are responding by taking matters into their own hands, vinifying their own grapes and making the case for the value of what they grow.

There is another transformation taking place, too. South African wine's diversity is starting to move beyond “here is a winemaker of colour, or here is a woman winemaker” towards something much more meaningful: “here is a really good winemaker”. Gender and race remain important parts of the industry's story, but increasingly they are not the story in themselves. The question is whether someone is making great wine, building something of consequence and adding to the future of South African wine.

And that, perhaps, is another sign of a maturing industry.

For Tim, the answer isn't simply to sell more cheap wine, or to rely on the old shorthand of sunshine and scenery. There is far more to South African wine than that: history, provenance, people, place, diversity and an extraordinary capacity to evolve.

There is a lot more in Tim Atkin's 2026 Special Report, from the wines and regions leading the charge to the challenges that could determine what (and who) survives.

Scroll down for this year's podium winners, and buy the full report for Tim's 10 key findings and complete tasting notes.

— Daléne Fourie, News24 Wine Editor

"South Africa has its share of challenges right now, but it is better prepared for the future than many of its competitors."

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Hannes Storm, husband of Nathalia, brother of California-based winemaker Ernst Storm (Storm Wines, California), and a Hermanus local, has been making Storm Wines for 14 years now. Established in 2012 after eight years at Hamilton Russell Vineyards, Hannes is the only South African winemaker making site-specific Pinot Noir from each of the three Hemel-en-Aarde appellations, and Chardonnay from two of them. He is one of just four winemakers in the history of the Hemel-en-Aarde's pioneer winery, Hamilton Russell Vineyards (established in 1975), all of whom have helped establish the valley as one of South Africa's fine wine regions and champions of South African Pinot Noir and Chardonnay.

Hannes has taken it upon himself to decode all three Hemel-en-Aarde appellations, producing three Pinot Noirs, one from each appellation, and two Chardonnays from the Valley and Ridge. Fourteen years on, the wines showcase the refinement and precision that making wine in one place over time can produce.

Storm's wines are built around freshness, texture and restraint, with the stony, clay-rich Bokkeveld Shale soils of the Valley and Ridge and the decomposed granitic soils of the Upper Hemel-en-Aarde offering distinct expressions of place. His Ridge wines show the structure and focus of altitude, while Ignis benefits from the freshness of its granite soils.

Working with just 9.5ha and often highly variable yields, Hannes remains firm in his conviction to produce terroir-driven wines with minimal intervention as a true reflection of their place. Making these site-specific, technically advanced wines every year is a choice, and a larger contribution to Brand South Africa and the future of South African wine.

Tim's choice also puts the Hemel-en-Aarde itself in the spotlight: a region whose pioneers and subsequent generations of producers have played a defining role in the evolution of South African Pinot Noir. By working methodically across all three appellations, Hannes has helped deepen that understanding, showing just how much variation and potential can exist within a relatively small valley.

Now, fourteen years into Storm Wines, that choice has made Hannes Storm one of the leading voices of the Hemel-en-Aarde and of South African Pinot Noir and Chardonnay, and Tim Atkin MW's 2026 Winemaker of the Year.

Contact Hannes directly via the Storm Wines website.

Jolandie Fouché is a Swartlander from Malmesbury, an Elsenburger, mother of two, twin, one of the original Old Vine warriors and the winemaker behind Wolf and Woman Wines, established in 2018. Her maiden vintage, a Paardeberg Chenin Blanc 2018, earned her Tim Atkin MW’s White Wine Discovery of the Year in 2019.

The name Wolf and Woman came from Women Who Run with the Wolves and a line that transformed her: "Somedays, I am more wolf than woman. And I am still learning how to stop apologising for my wild." - Nikita Gill.

She says: “I believe only dead fish swim with the current.” And she's stopped apologising.

That instinct to swim upstream is perhaps most evident in her Pinotage. Jolandie has gone in search of another side to South Africa’s quintessential grape, making a lighter, more perfumed and textural expression in honour of its Cinsault heritage. Her equally blended Paardeberg and Malmesbury Pinotage 2025, earned 95 points from Tim Atkin MW, who described it as “a floral, engaging, self- assured style”.

But Pinotage is only the proverbial tip of the iceberg. Jolandie makes Chenin Blanc, Grenache Blanc and Syrah, alongside a growing collection of single-vineyard wines intended as honest representations of a place and her connection to it.

Today, her particular style of Pinotage is rapidly gaining a following among producers and consumers, helping diversify the perception of this historically divisive grape. Tim Atkin MW’s 2026 Young Winemaker of the Year, Jolandie Fouché is part of a new generation uncovering what else South African wine (and Pinotage) can be.

Visit her website for more information at https://wolfandwomanwines.com/

At 30, Stefan Johannes represents a different kind of Young Gun. The fourth-generation forestry farmer turned winemaker is taking on one of the Swartland's most storied farms with a radical idea: that the future of wine starts with making grape growing financially sustainable, and that Lammershoek should be recognised as a site of origin, rather than simply a source of grapes.

After the Johannes family bought Lammershoek in 2022, they inherited decades of South African wine history, along with years of rebrands and changing winemakers. Rather than reinventing the farm yet again, Johannes is stripping it back to what he believes matters most: the land.

With grower contracts now structured around hectares rather than tonnage, and a plan to require producers to bottle Lammershoek fruit as a site-specific wine from 2027, the family is betting on Lammershoek as origin, not brand.

For Johannes, it's about more than making better wine. With a 20-year planting plan, 50% of the farm's fruit earmarked for the family’s Zwartwater label and a growing group of independent producers making wines from its vineyards, he is attempting to prove that Lammershoek is one of South Africa's great wine sites, and that it can be economically viable as one.

It's an ambitious attempt to fix a broken part of the wine business, and perhaps the most radical thing a Young Gun can do right now: change the system, not the style.

Discover his Zwartwater label here: Zwartwater

For generations, Eendrag has been one of the quiet forces behind some of South Africa's finest wines. The 98-hectare Helderberg farm has been in the Steyn family since 1896, with fifth-generation farmer Cato Rabie now farming alongside her father, Chris Steyn.

Together, they have quietly supplied grapes to some of the Cape's most respected producers, including Le Riche, Hogan Wines, Pieter Walser's BLANKbottle, Carl Schulz's SOLO, Savage Wines, Banele Vakele's Tembela Wines, Rudi Schultz, Roodekrantz, Salt Rock, De Grendel, Stellenbosch Vineyards and Beeslaar Wines (among others).

It is an extraordinary list, and one that most wine drinkers are unlikely to associate with Eendrag.

That is what makes Tim Atkin's decision to name Cato and Chris his 2026 Growers of the Year so significant. For years, the people farming the vineyards have sat behind the names on the labels. Tim has turned the spotlight around.

It is part of an ongoing Grower Revolution, as I see it, one intent on making wine grape farming a viable business proposition.

“It all starts here in the vineyard,” Cato told Tim.

Cato describes herself as a “custodian” of Eendrag, continuing the work of four generations before her. Some of the people working the farm have an equally deep connection to the land: the Baadjies family are also fifth-generation Eendrag custodians. “There’s something other than money here,” she told him.

In a report preoccupied with the people, places and history that make South African wine distinctive, there could hardly be a more fitting Grower of the Year.

You can visit their website here: https://www.eendrag.co.za/index.html 

For decades, the Breedekloof has been synonymous with volume. Now, the largest producer cellar in the valley is quietly rewriting that story.

Daschbosch is the fine-wine arm of UniWines, representing 65 grower shareholders and 3 000ha under vine. But rather than trying to turn all that fruit into premium wine, they have distilled the essence of the valley into just 5ha of carefully selected Certified Heritage Vineyards.

Among them is 0.185ha of Hanepoot planted in 1882 at Gevonden, officially South Africa’s oldest vineyard, alongside old-vine Chenin Blanc, Cinsault and Clairette Blanche. These tiny, precious blocks produce wines that have earned international attention and demonstrate just how much fine-wine potential exists in a region historically defined by bulk production.

Daschbosch’s evolution is more than a premium label. It is an attempt to prove that the Breedekloof’s greatest asset isn’t its scale, but the people, vineyards and history hidden within it.

From tug-of-war champions and tent-pegging farmers to 141-year-old vines, this is a story about a farming community holding on, and finally showing the wine world what it has been holding onto.

Visit https://daschbosch.co.za/ for more information.

After more than four decades chasing the perfect bubble, Pieter “Bubbles” Ferreira has been named a Winemaking Legend by Tim Atkin MW, and recently received the International Wine Challenge’s Lifetime Achievement Award.

From his early days with Achim von Arnim at Pierre Jourdan to more than three decades at Graham Beck, Ferreira has helped shape South Africa’s Cap Classique category, taking its wines from a fledgling local experiment to an increasingly serious international proposition.

But for the man who helped put Cap Classique on the world stage, the accolades are not a destination. Having recently retired from Graham Beck and launched his own label, Pieter Ferreira Cap Classique, he is still searching for the Cape’s “sacred places” and refining what makes South African bubbles distinctive.

His philosophy is simple: " There is no destination; it remains a journey.”

After 40 years, Ferreira reckons he is only halfway there.

Discover his eponymously named wine brand here: https://www.pieterferreira.co.za/

Some wine farms make wine. Others have become destinations in their own right. Boschendal does both.

With title deeds dating back to 1685, Boschendal is one of South Africa's oldest wine farms, but its significance today lies as much in what it has become as in what it has inherited. Set in the Drakenstein Valley, the working farm combines vineyards with livestock, gardens, food, accommodation, hospitality and a landscape that makes a visit about far more than what is in the glass.

It is this ability to bring the different parts of wine culture together that makes Boschendal such a powerful ambassador for South African wine. Its scale also matters. In an industry increasingly celebrated for tiny-production wines from cult sites, estates such as Boschendal have the resources and reach to translate the Cape's sense of place into wines and experiences that can reach a far larger audience.

And beneath the hospitality is a serious wine operation, spanning site-specific wines from Stellenbosch and Elgin, heritage-driven blends, Cap Classique, accessible classics and experimental small-batch releases. As previous winemaker Danielle Jacobs (now of Neethlingshof) once explained to me, the different ranges function almost like a solar system, orbiting around a nucleus of site specificity.

That same idea extends beyond the cellar. Boschendal demonstrates that wine tourism isn't simply about adding a restaurant or accommodation to a wine farm. It is about creating a compelling reason to come, stay, eat, drink, explore and understand the place, and, in doing so, turning a wine estate into a living expression of Brand South Africa.

In a country whose wine story stretches back to 1659, Boschendal's ability to connect heritage, farming, wine and hospitality makes it a fitting winner of Tim Atkin MW's 2026 Wine Tourism Award.

Because, ultimately, everything is part of a greater whole. Visit them at the farm: https://www.boschendalwines.com/

For the inaugural Tim Atkin MW Winery of the Year award, the choice is a fittingly unconventional one: Californian-born Samantha O'Keefe and Lismore Estate Vineyards, the winery she built from scratch in Greyton.

When O'Keefe planted vines in the Overberg in the early 2000s, Greyton was not an established fine-wine region. Lismore became the pioneer of its Wine of Origin, with O'Keefe betting on a remote, cool-climate site and producing wines that would ultimately put both the farm and the region on the international wine map.

It has been anything but an easy road. In 2019, a devastating fire destroyed much of the estate, including the cellar, home and large sections of vineyard. O'Keefe was left contemplating whether to rebuild at all. She did, helped by an extraordinary outpouring of support from the South African wine community, and Lismore emerged producing wines from a vineyard that had quite literally been through the flames.

Today, Lismore's Chardonnay, Viognier and Syrah are expressions of a place O'Keefe has spent more than two decades decoding, with the estate's extreme diurnal range, altitude and varied soils giving the wines a distinct sense of place.

But perhaps what makes the inaugural award most significant is that it recognises something bigger than individual bottles. O'Keefe didn't simply establish a winery; she helped establish a wine region. She chose to make fine wine somewhere few others thought to look, built a business around it, survived its near-destruction and kept going.

The first recipient of Tim Atkin's new Winery of the Year award is therefore a fitting choice: a winery whose story is inseparable from the woman, the place and the sheer determination that built it.

Discover Lismore Estate Vineyards here: Lismore Estate Vineyard

2024 Sadie Family Columella, Swartland

Grape Variety: Nine-variety Mediterranean blend, led by Syrah (40%), with Grenache, Cinsault, Pinotage (2% for the first time) and others
Origin: Swartland (14%)
Producer: Sadie Family

Score: 100 points

"The best Columella since 2019 in my opinion – a wine that also achieved a 'perfect' 100-point score – this is now a nine-variety Mediterranean blend from a dozen different Swartland sites, dominated by the Paardeberg... Violet, thyme and fynbos aromas lead you into a palate of wonderful density and energy, with sculpted tannins, subtle minerality and flavours of tangerine, blackberry and red cherry framed by 5% new oak. One of the greatest-ever South African wines." (2028-40)

2025 Alheit Vineyards Huilkrans Chenin Blanc

Grape Variety: Chenin Blanc
Origin: Citrusdal Mountain (13.5%)
Producer: Chris Alheit

Score: 99 points

"It's invidious to have to choose between Chris Alheit's top Chenin Blancs in any given vintage, but choose we must. And in 2025, Huilkrans is primus inter pares, or first among equals, expressing the purity and focus of Jozua Visser's Oudam farm at its best. Showing the effortless concentration of low-yielding vines planted between 1974 and 1989 at 450 metres, it has amazing depth and extract, blossom and jasmine aromas, savoury intensity and flavours of juniper, lemongrass and wet stones. Truly symphonic, this is a stunning white from a winemaker at the peak of his considerable powers." (2029-38)

2026 Doolhof Xclusiv Rosé

Grape Variety: Syrah with 49% Grenache
Origin: Limietberg (13.1%)
Producer: Doolhof

Score: 93 points

"Taking up where the award-winning Xclusiv Rosé left off, this is a finely judged cuvée of Syrah and 49% Grenache from Limietberg. Whole bunch pressed before ageing in stainless steel, it's very pale in style, with a hint of boiled sweets, peach, citrus and watermelon flavours and a pure, tangy, acid-driven finish." (2026-29)

2025 Terblanche Family Vineyards Elmie Pinotage Rosé

Grape Variety: Pinotage
Origin: Stellenbosch (13%)
Producer: Terblanche Family Vineyards

Score: 93 points

"Top viticulturist Etienne Terblanche, also one of the partners in Thistle & Weed, makes this excellent rosé under his own label. Sourced from vines planted in 1976, it's a Pinotage pink that out-Provences Provence, with rosehip, raspberry and wild cherry flavours, a hint of wood and a savoury, dry finish." (2026-30)

2019 Graham Beck Cuvée Clive CC

Grape Variety: Wooded Chardonnay with 19% Pinot Noir
Origin: Western Cape (12.3%)
Producer: Graham Beck

Score: 97 points

"Sparkling wine lovers in the know have long appreciated the quality of Cuvée Clive, which deserves to share the limelight with the very best Champagnes... Savoury, spicy and toasty, it has layers of lemon zest, strawberry, malt and shiitake mushrooms, effortless structure and focus and perfectly judged autolysis from 67 months on lees." (2026-32)

2017 Le Lude Madáme Brut Nature Millésimé CC

Grape Variety: Chardonnay (unwooded)
Origin: Western Cape (11.4%)
Producer: Le Lude

Score: 97 points

"This is the third vintage of Madáme, made by the brilliant Paul Gerber during his time at Le Lude. An unwooded cuvée of Chardonnay from Franschhoek and Robertson, it's a remarkable, bone-dry Cap Classique that rivals the best of Champagne, with tiny bubbles, layers of shitake mushroom and toast and a savoury, tapering finish." (2026-32

NV Mullineux Olerasay Straw Wine #6,

Grape Variety: Chenin Blanc (solera)
Origin: Swartland (7.8%)
Producer: Mullineux

Score: 98 points

"The sixth release of this incredible solera Chenin Blanc has components dating back to 2008. Made in bijou quantities of less than 2,000 bottles, it's both young and timeless at the same time... With layers of dried fig, honey, marzipan and orange zest, a subtle rancio undertone and a gorgeous interplay between acidity and 360 grams of residual sugar. One of the world's greatest sweet wines." (2026-33)

Boplaas Cape Vintage Reserve 1996

Grape Variety: Touriga Nacional with 10% Tinta Barroca and Souzão
Origin: Calitzdorp (18.8%)
Producer: Boplaas

Score: 97 points

"'These are lekker things to drink,' says Leon Coetzee, and who am I to disagree with him? A flag-waving delight after three decades in barrel and bottle... with flavours of molasses, Christmas cake and North African spices, 110 grams of sugar and a lingering, layered finish." (2026-35)

2025 Electric Mud Old Bush Vines Grenache

Grape Variety: Grenache
Origin: Piekenierskloof (13.1%)
Producer: Electric Mud

Score: 96 points

"The grapes from this 1.4-hectare parcel of 1966 vines used to go to the late Jan Boland Coetzee, and I think he'd be delighted by their new home... this was fermented with 80% whole bunches in concrete tanks, producing a stunning wine with rose petal and rooibos tea aromas, sinewy tannins and layers of red cherry, raspberry and clove. What a début!" (2027-33)

2024 Iona Beeskamp Single Vineyard Pinot Noir

Grape Variety: Pinot Noir
Origin: Elgin (14%)
Producer: Iona

Score: 96 points

"Beeskamp is a brilliant new Pinot Noir from Iona, sourced from comparatively young vines planted at 415 metres with the 115 and 667 clones. Elegant, floral and ethereal, it has a nice frame of granular tannins, a succulent palate of goji berry and summer pudding, plenty of zip and energy and scented 25% new oak." (2026-35)

Catherine Marshall Between Two Worlds 2024

Grape Variety: Roussanne with 40% Grenache Blanc
Origin: Voor Paardeberg (13%)
Producer: Catherine Marshall

Score: 95 points

"Between Two Worlds is a superb Voor Paardeberg blend of Roussanne and 40% Grenache Blanc that does justice to its eye-catching label. Sadly only a never-to-be-repeated one off, it's a small volume triumph from Doran Vineyards, with flavours of lemon, lime and gin botanicals, a touch of wood and a thrilling, palate-cleansing finish." (2027-32)

2025 Pink Valley Rosé Reserve

Grape Variety: Sangiovese and Shiraz
Origin: Stellenbosch (12.5%)
Producer: Pink Valley

Score: 92 points

"A step up from the basic Pink Valley rosé, in terms of both concentration and price, this comes from a single parcel on decomposed granite and combines Sangiovese and Shiraz. Barrel fermented in older wood, it has appealing flavours of candy floss, summer berries and orange zest and a waft of Campari spices. An impressive début." (2026-29)

The Fledge & Co Cape White Fortified NV

Grape Variety: Chenin Blanc-based blend
Origin: Western Cape (20.1%)
Producer: The Fledge & Co

Score: 92 points

"The Fledge doesn't normally make fortified wines, but Margaux Nel's day job is at Boplaas, so it was only a matter of time... Produced in an off-dry, lightly rancio style with 41 grams of residual, it's nutty, waxy and intense, with notes of citrus, pear and honey and well-integrated spirit." (2026-31)

Domaine des Dieux Claudia Brut R.D. CC 2012

Grape Variety: Chardonnay with 20% Pinot Noir
Origin: Elgin (11.4%)
Producer: Domaine des Dieux

Score: 94

"R.D. – short for Recently Disgorged – is a brilliant new bubbly from Megan Mullis, made with Chardonnay and 20% Pinot Noir from Elgin. Matured on lees for a remarkable 12.5 years, this is an intense, layered cuvée with time-aided complexity, flavours of toast, wild mushroom, fennel and red berry fruit and subtle 6.9 grams of dosage." (2027-31)

Krone RD CC 2016

Grape Variety: Blanc de Blancs (Chardonnay)
Origin: Elandskloof (12%)
Producer: Krone

Score: 94

"Showcasing the first ever vintage of a Krone bubbly from Elandskloof, this is a very stylish, layered, late-released Blanc de Blancs. Developing beautifully after a decade on lees, it has wonderful concentration and depth, aromas of iodine and fresh cèpes, a savoury undertone and a lingering, bone-dry finish." (2026-31)

Kaapzicht Granite Ridge OVP Chenin 2025

Grape Variety: Chenin Blanc
Origin: Stellenbosch (13.2%)
Producer: Kaapzicht

Score: 91 points

"Hard to beat for value in South Africa, this is a very lightly wooded Chenin Blanc that reflects extremely well on winemakers Danie Steytler and Kayleigh Hattingh. Racy, sappy and just off dry at 4.7 grams of residual sugar, this has a touch of oak, pear, citrus and cherimoya fruit and tangy underlying minerality." (2026-31)

2024 DeMorgenzon DMZ Syrah

Grape Variety: Syrah
Origin: Stellenbosch (14.5%)
Producer: DeMorgenzon

Score: 93 points

"South Africa's equivalent of a good Crozes-Hermitage, this is a wine for Syrah lovers on a budget. Inky and aromatic, it has wonderful granitic freshness, some clove spice from 10% whole bunches, layers of blackberry, liquorice and black olive and skilfully integrated 15% new oak. Hard to beat at the price." (2027-31)

2025 Jordan Dry Rosé

Grape Variety: Merlot with 13% Syrah
Origin: Stellenbosch (13%)
Producer: Jordan

Score: 92 points

"Great value from Sjaak Nelson, this rosé combines Merlot with 13% Syrah and is the best seller on the farm. Benefitting from fruit that used to go into the Black Magic red, it's a serious, unwooded, direct-pressed style that tastes as good as it looks, with raspberry and wild strawberry fruit and a savoury, lightly spicy finish." (2026-28)

KWV Laborie Blanc de Blancs CC 2020

Grape Variety: Chardonnay (Blanc de Blancs)
Origin: Western Cape (12%
Producer: KWV Laborie

Score: 92 points

"The KWV's all-Chardonnay Blanc de Blancs offers very impressive quality at the price. Sourced from a single parcel in Wellington of all places, picked in four stages, it has added complexity from 15% barrel fermentation and 10% reserve material, appealing flavours of liquorice, lemongrass and patisserie spices and 5.87 grams of dosage." (2026-29)

Van Loveren VRL Special Late Harvest Gewürztraminer 2026

Grape Variety: Gewürztraminer
Origin: Robertson (11.5%)
Producer: Van Loveren

Score: 91 points

"An unashamed crowd pleaser of a wine, this is simply a delicious drink, especially if you have a bit of a sweet tooth. Indulgently aromatic, it has rose petal and ginger spice aromas, a palate of lychee and cherimoya and a nice interplay between 47 grams of sugar and supporting acidity. A fruit cocktail in a glass." (2027-30)

KWV Classic Collection Cape Tawny NV

Grape Variety: Blend of Chenin Blanc, Tinta Barocca, Touriga Nacional, Syrah, Souzão and Tempranillo
Origin: Western Cape (17.5%)
Producer: KWV

Score: 93 points

"I have no idea how much longer the KWV will be able to keep releasing Tawnies of this quality at such a bargain price, but fill your boots while you can, folks. Made from an unusual line-up of Chenin Blanc, Souzão, Tempranillo, Tinta Barocca and Touriga Nacional, it's an incredible solera-style fortified, with flavours of date, fig and molasses, 138 grams of residual sugar and a drizzle of caramel." - Tim Atkin 2026-33

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