Hold on to your hats folks for this is one heck of an offer, nothing short of a good old-fashioned Spectator scoop. I humbly suggest that you must be either crazy or teetotal to overlook it.
We’ve five wines, all from Anthony Hamilton Russell in South Africa, of which two — the 2020 Hamilton Russell Vineyards Chardonnay and the 2020 Hamilton Russell Vineyards Pinot Noir — are not available to buy anywhere else in the UK until Easter at the earliest.
Our old mates at Private Cellar have cannily sourced the initial UK allocation of both wines (50 six-bottle boxes of each) and Laura Taylor, PC’s marketing director, has generously agreed to offer first dibs to readers of The Spectator. Laura, thank you!
The first UK offering of the 2020 Hamilton Russell Vineyards Chardonnay and Pinot Noir
Anthony is the star of many a Spectator Winemaker Lunch/Dinner. Indeed, the last event we held before this wretched plague and pestilence overcame us was an epic dinner at Tate Britain a year ago to the very day this issue is published. As always, AHR and his wife, Olive, were on cracking form, as were their wines, and we drank long and we drank deep as the world around us crumbled.
Anthony owns three estates in the Hemel-en-Aarde (‘Heaven and Earth’) Valley in Walker Bay and we start with the 2019 Ashbourne Blanc (1), launched last year. A blend of 80 per cent Sauvignon Blanc and 20 per cent Chardonnay (both unoaked), it comes complete with a jaunty — not to say kitsch ’n’ camp — pastel-hued faux art nouveau label which sets the tone perfectly. Cut-grass-fresh, lively and zesty, it’s extremely easy-going. Unscrew, drink, enjoy. £11.95.
The 2019 Southern Right Pinotage (2) is named after the southern right whales that come to frolic in Walker Bay.
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