TERROIR-DRIVEN SOUTH AFRICANS
TINA GELLIE
Ahead of a trip to South Africa, in part to present Rosa Kruger with her 2022 Decanter Hall of Fame award, I reflected on how instrumental she has been – in her modest way – in helping shape, from the vineyard, so many of her clients’ critically acclaimed wines.
At a tasting with Marc Kent of Boekenhoutskloof earlier this year – coincidentally also with Tim Atkin MW, who wrote our Hall of Fame winner profile (see November issue) – I was blown away by all the 2019 releases.
I’m perennially enthralled by Boekenhoutskloof’s Swartland Syrah, but on this occasion the stood out
