The 2024 Chardonnay Reserve comes from dry-farmed vines on steep slopes that tend to produce small bunches, matured in 500-litre oak barrels, 30% new. If you find better aromatics on a Cape Chardonnay in 2024 than this, then do let me know (usual address). Stunning delineation, real depth and mineralite, blossoming with aeration. The palate is very well defined, nicely poised with tangerine, white peach and light nectarine scents. Very poised and very sustained, this is the kind of Chardonnay to pour for your best friends. 95 points