Ruby tone. Scent of cooked berries and currant leaf. Always surprises for its concentration and power: bold and smooth, and delivering ripe (but not oversweet) red fruit. Not subtle, mildly old-fashioned, but none the worse for it. Now-2013

Product Code: GDV411

Jan du Toit is so refreshingly honest. As owner of one of the twenty family owned farms strung out on the road from Robertson to Bonnievale, following the long bends of the vital Breede river, he bluntly says that he is not “farming with money, but farming for money”. The lowish alcohol Colombar is always attractively exotic, with the merest hint of sweetness that makes it both an easy-drinking aperitif and excellent as an accompaniment to spicy food, whether Indian, Chinese or Thai. The Merlot is in a gutsy, food-friendly style.