“Truly world class” - Tim Atkin MW, 100 points

The last time I was at Porseleinberg, they were unloading a new press from the back of a lorry. Normal stuff for a winery. Nothing to see here. Move along. Except there was something unusual. They had shipped the press all the way from Domaine Rene Rostaing in the Northern Rhône. Now, a press doesn’t add any extrinsic flavour to a wine, it’s just an inert piece of equipment that squeezes the juice from the grapes, but such is the attention to detail that Marc Kent and Callie Louw bestow upon their Porseleinberg Syrah, that, in their attempt to make a South African version of a Côte-Rôtie, they shipped a press (a press!) all the way from the Northern Rhone. Maybe they thought it was imbued with magical properties! Ha! Then again, maybe it was, because this wine could easily be mistaken for a top notch Cote Rotie from someone like, oh I don’t know, Rene Rostaing. 14% alc. Drink now-2040.

Press review:

Tim Atkin MW: “The 2023 growing season was "dry and difficult", according to Callie Louw, at least in this wild and starkly beautiful corner of the Swartland, but you wouldn’t know it from the quality of this superlative Syrah. Picked late, right up to March 8th, it has the concentration and intensity of a small crop. Fermented with 90% whole clusters, with 70% of the wine using the submerged cap technique, it's one of the most sublime Porseleinbergs yet, pairing aromas of incense, thyme and black pepper with firm, age-worthy tannins, blackberry, red berry and liquorice flavours and a stony, mineral core. Truly world class. Drink 2027-2035.” 100 points

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