With Christmas just around the corner, this is your gentle nudge (and friendly warning) that our festive delivery cut-off is midday, Wednesday 18 December 2025, to ensure your wines arrive safely in time for Christmas Eve, 24 December. If you’re planning a well-stocked table, a few thoughtful gifts, or simply don’t want to face the holidays without decent wine, now’s the moment.
To make things even easier, remember you still enjoy 10% off any 6 bottles, pick & mix across the range, no rules, no restrictions, just good wine and good sense.
If you’re looking for proven crowd-pleasers, three of our standout best sellers of 2025 say it all.
Stony Brook ‘The Max’ 2019 has quietly become one of the finest value Cabernet-led wines we’ve encountered since Haut Espoir back in 2017. From the McNaught family’s Franschhoek estate, this is classic, confident Bordeaux-style winemaking, layered, structured and deeply satisfying, a wine that clearly caught the attention of Greg Sherwood MW with a 94 point score. It’s serious wine without the serious price tag.
Alongside it, Stony Brook Camissa 2021 continues to impress as one of the Cape’s most reliable red blends. Crafted by Craig McNaught, who has been at the winemaking helm since 2011, Camissa offers polish, balance and effortless drinkability, the kind of bottle that works just as well on the Christmas table as it does quietly disappearing over a long weekend.
For something a little more left-field, but no less festive, the Orpheus & The Raven Old Bush Vine Chenin Blanc 2024 has been one of the year’s breakout stars. Sourced from a 1973-planted Durbanville vineyard, this small-batch Chenin is the work of the Vinoneers, an unlikely but inspired duo of engineer-musician Etienne Louw and designer-storyteller Brenden Schwartz. Their wines pair music with emotion, texture and place, and this Chenin, partly fermented in amphora, is all about layered fruit, natural acidity and soulful drinkability. Think heritage vines turned into something joyful, expressive and refreshingly unpretentious.
Whether you’re building a mixed six for entertaining, gifting a few guaranteed winners, or tucking something special away for yourself, now’s the time to act. Place your order by midday on 18 December, enjoy 10% off any 6 bottles, and let us take care of the rest, so you can focus on the celebrations ahead.
Cheers to a well-stocked Christmas
Top Sellers
A Few 2025 Standouts
94 Points – Greg Sherwood MW | 5 Stars – Platter’s Guide
“The Max 2019 is an illustrious Cape Bordeaux Blend featuring 47% Cabernet Sauvignon, 21% Cabernet Franc, 18% Merlot and 14% Petit Verdot in a classical left bank expression that was matured in 50% new French oak barriques for 26 months before blending and bottling. From a powerful vintage, this blend is a wonderfully soft fulsome wine with alluring aromatics of ripe black plum, black chai tea, dried tobacco leaf, sweet herbs, gun smoke, salty black currant, and hints of sweet blueberry rock candy. The palate displays a textural depth and generosity that is incredibly seductive and inviting. The acids are taut, bright, and steely but are embraced by moreish sweet and sour black cherry and black plum fruits, with subtle hints of graphite and blue berries in the background. An intricate wine with a serious stature but an amiable finish. Enjoy now and over the next 3 to 8+ years. The perfect alternative to your mid-week Claret.” – Greg Sherwood MW.
Camissa means ‘sweet water for all’ in Kora, the Khoe language of the Cape. This refers to the river that runs from Table Mountain, under the city of Cape Town and into the Atlantic Ocean. This is a wine that is only produced every few years and its blend changes each time. The 2021 vintage is made up of only Franschhoek-grown fruit; 81% Cabernet Sauvignon and 19% Petit Verdot – matured in 30% new French oak barriques for 24 months.
Amongst the unique features of the Old Bush Vines Chenin blanc, is the grapes from which it is made. The grapes were planted in 1973, making it two years older than the Vinoneers! The 48-year-old bush vines are located in the Durbanville wine valley forming part of the wine of Cape Town wine region. A youthful green edge adds an instant brilliance that gracefully yields a pale golden core. Chenin lovers will enjoy how the aromas emerge strikingly: freshly sliced nectarine complemented by a touch of Malden salt, embroidered with finer nuances of quince, ripe orange, naartjie, grapefruit and blossoms evocative of these fruits. Ripe fruit, oak and lees contact imparts a creamy texture with an ever-present salinity. Herbal notes of fennel and lime leaves adds a savoury sheen for a delightful contrast. The acidity is refreshing, while the pithy texture moulds the wine’s structure, like savouring lemon curd spread on toasted sourdough. The wine has a great length, elegant floral accents, and a persistent limy character, adding to the chalky dry finish.
