Notes:
The elite winemakers in South Africa are invited to join the Cape Winemakers Guild and each year they are required to produce a small, limited production to showcase their skills. The resulting wines are sold exclusively at a charity auction for the benefit of underprivileged children in the winemaking districts. One wine has consistently dominated the auctions for fourteen years, achieving the highest price for any Shiraz in 2007 and the second highest price in the auction's history - Gravel Hill.
Gravel Hill is the brainchild of Hartenberg winemaker, Carl Schultz and for the first time ever he has decided to make this flagship wine available to a limited audience outside South Africa (very limited - as he has given the UK only 20 cases!).
"Dark black/red with a ruby rim. Gorgeous black fruit nose with violets, some black pepper and smokiness. Ripe and sweet raspberry and dark fruits with a good dash of spice. Terrific elegance to this with a hugely pleasurable and lingering finish. This can be drunk now but will continue to develop into a blockbuster if left in the cellar for a few years. As the winemakers said it is all iron fist in a velvet glove!" Drinking 2009-2015