Scent of pears and honey. This is so richly textured for a wine at this price, weighty, offering a generous, well-flavoured heart of white peach and crisp pineapple. Terrific. Now-2013

Product Code: FAB110

False Bay is the second label of Waterkloof, a recently established estate with a superb winery set on a bluff high above Somerset West. The vineyards lie on high ground on the southern shoulders of the Helderberg, not far from Vergelegen. 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).

The Chenin Blanc comes from dry-farmed, bush vines in Paardeberg, slowly fermented for five or six months, using only wild yeasts. This brightly flavoured wine exemplifies how old vines in the Cape make the best examples of good value dry Chenin Blanc in the world. The Shiraz is sourced from plots in Paarl, Malmesbury and Stellenbosch, lightly oaked for the 2009 vintage. To these stalwarts of our range, we have added their Pinotage for the first time, from 25 year old vines in Swartland: this is a pure and juicy example.