Anything from Howard Park jumps straight to the front of the queue. This came in the day before yesterday and I was all over it like a fat kid on a chocolate cake..suffice to say HP is the source of some of my favourite wines.

Bright and tangy grapefruit, lemon and nectarine fruit supported by fine spicy oak with some yeasty lees characters adding complexity. On the palate intense and toit like a tiger, curled up and waiting to pounce, with flinty minerally acidity and a lightly creamy (lees derived) texture. It has explosive flavours of sweet grapefruit, lemon and white peach with yeasty richness and complementary spicy nutty oak. Bursts out on the finish with a long stretching aftertaste of mineral, grapefruit and spice. A very fine specimen.

Other vintages: 2005

Rated : 95 Points
Tasted : Mar08
Alcohol : 13%
Closure : Screwcap
Drink : 2009 - 2016