One of Nederburg’s most decorated wines, the Winemaster’s Reserve Noble Late Harvest, has done it again. This time the 2014 vintage has been ranked five stars in the 2016 edition of the Platter’s Wine Guide, continuing a virtually uninterrupted track record since 2008. The popular dessert wine also enjoys an international reputation. UK critic Tim Atkin MW recently scored it 93 points and earlier vintages have earned trophies and gold medals on events such as the International Wine Challenge, the International Wine & Spirit Competition and the Decanter World Wine Awards.

Cellar master Andrea Freeborough believes it is the combination of a refreshingly vibrant acidity and honeyed sweetness with notes of stone fruit that makes it so appealing. The wine is a blend of botrytised Chenin blanc and Muscat de Frontignan.

For the first time, The Young Airhawk, a wine in the Heritage Heroes gourmet collection, has also earned five stars in Platter’s, with the 2014 vintage of the oak-fermented Sauvignon Blanc impressing the panel. Atkin scored the wine 92 points.

Grapes were sourced from cooler-climate vineyards on Elim, Darling and Durbanville.

“It really is a multi-faceted and very food-friendly wine,” says Freeborough. “It manages to be fresh, crisp and zesty with a pleasingly creamy texture, suffused with aromas and flavours of asparagus and green figs.”