This is a cracking wine at this price, a smooth and juicy mouthful. Fine red-berried fruit with attractive smokey character, just the right bite of acidity, and the merest hint of meaty savouriness. Fantastic with grilled meat, and sure to be a real crowd-pleaser. Now-2012

Product Code: FAB609

False Bay is the second label of a new enterprise, Waterkloof, founded pricipally by English wine agent Paul Boutinot.  The vineyards lie on high ground on the southern shoulders of the Helderberg, not far from Vergelegen. Amidst them, on a bluff high above Somerset West and False Bay itself, a startling winery is being constructed: it looks a little like the hangout of a James Bond villain. This is a hugely ambitious project. 

The False Bay wines are well crafted, smartly labelled, varietal wines, bottled under screwcap, in part sourced from fruit from Waterkloof, but also from parcels of well-sited vines all over the Coastal Region (which includes most South African vineyards near Cape Town), identified by partner Werner Engelbrecht.