The wine showcases an array of bright red fruit on the nose, together with a bouquet of all spice, vanilla and cinnamon and nuances of dried rose petals. The palate is velvety with flavours of raspberry and mulberry which finishes with a lingering linear palate. Matured for 16 months in French oak barrels of which 35% was new oak and the balance was older oak. Roasted Oak flavours lend themselves to game meat, in particular Springbok carpaccio or shank, rich roasted-tomato Italian style Gnocchi, or salty Olive tapenade and cured anchovy paste.