The Chocolate Block 2019
The Chocolate Block, with its spicy nose profile, is a wine of elegance and linearity. Explosive nose with great depth of spiced berry, fine white pepperiness, and violet-infused perfume. Striking freshness on a firmly structured palate with elegant and supple tannins. Spicy oak aromas covering a rounded mid-palate that reveals layers of fruit with intense purity. Classically styled with integrated tannins and balanced acidity to ensure a long, succulent, and textured finish.
71% Syrah, 12% Cabernet Sauvignon, 11% Grenache, 5% Cinsault, 1% Viognier. Produced, matured, and bottled by Boekenhoutskloof, established in 1776 in the furthest corner of the beautiful Franschhoek valley. Boekenhoutskloof means "ravine of the Boekenhout" (pronounced Book-n-Howed)—an indigenous Cape Beech tree greatly prized for making furniture. Their figurehead is an image of a svelte lady carrying the dove of peace and hope, an adaptation of a hallmark used in early Cape of Good Hope silver. Watching over Boekenhoutskloof, she represents intrinsic quality, which they prize above all else.