Congratulations to Tokara on their scores and awards in the 2021 Tim Atkin South Africa Report. View all our Tokara wines here
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Tokara Telos 2016
Red Bordeaux Blends Wines of the Year
Rating: 96 Points
“Sumptuously packaged and ambitiously priced, the 2016 is the second vintage of this ultrapremium Bordeaux blend from Tokara. It marries Cabernet Sauvignon with 5% Petit Verdot and 2% Cabernet Franc and was aged in 60% new wood. Like the maiden release, it’s a wine that’s gentle and beguiling rather than a palate-assaulting blockbuster, with rose petal, cedarwood and tobacco leaf aromas, sweet raspberry and mulberry fruit, very fine, detailed tannins, subtle wood spice and more acidity than many 2016s. Good now, but will develop further complexity in bottle. 2023-32” Tim Atkin
Tokara Director’s Reserve White 2018
White Bordeaux Blends Wines of the Year
Rating: 95 Points
“Always released with some bottle age - you’d be a fool to drink this young anyway - Tokara’s reliably brilliant white Bordeaux blend has an unusually high percentage of Semillon this year, with 63% Sauvignon Blanc still dominating the marriage. Taut, waxy and saline, with tangy herb and grapefruit flavours. 2022-28” Tim Atkin
Tokara Director’s Reserve Red 2018
Red Bordeaux Blends Wines of the Year
Rating: 95 Points
“Even in a trickier, drought-affected vintage, the Director’s Reserve Red delivers the goods. Built around a core of minerality and dense tannins, this medley of Cabernet Sauvignon with 31% Cabernet Franc, Merlot and Malbec has lovely freshness and flavours of balsam, blueberry and coffee bean. 2022-32” Tim Atkin
Tokara Reserve Collection Cabernet Sauvignon 2018
Rating: 94 Points
“The Reserve Collection Cabernet Sauvignon also contains 7% Petit Verdot and 3% Malbec and is what Stuart Botha calls more of a “New World style”. Incense and cigar box aromas segue into a palate of plush yet fresh black cherry and blackcurrant fruit. 2022-30” Tim Atkin
Tokara Reserve Collection Sauvignon Blanc 2020
Rating: 93 Points
“Made from the same Elgin vineyard as the MCC bubbly - although it’s a Sauvignon Blanc rather than Chardonnay - this is very lightly wooded, with elderflower and nettle notes, some flinty reduction and crunchy acidity. 2021-24” Tim Atkin
Tokara Reserve Collection Chardonnay 2019
Rating: 93 Points
“The Reserve Chardonnay is made with fruit from the best blocks at Tokara’s Stellenbosch base and is always a stylish iteration of the grape. Aromatic, toasty oak acts as a nice frame for the citrus, pear and biscuit flavours. 2021-24” Tim Atkin
Tokara Blanc de Blancs MCC 2013
Rating: 93 Points
“Made in frustratingly small volumes every year, Tokara’s Blanc de Blancs bubbly comes from a two-hectare block of Chardonnay in Elgin and spends seven years on lees. Toasty, white pepper and aniseed aromas flow into a palate that’s nuanced, sappy, savoury and dry. 2022-26” Tim Atkin
Tokara Reserve Collection Syrah 2017
Rating: 92 Points
“The Bordeaux focus is so strong at Tokara that people often forget this top Stellenbosch estate makes a very good Syrah too. Sourced from a north-west facing slope on decomposed granite, it has lovely cracked black pepper aromas, savoury tannins and a meaty, wild herbinfused palate. 2022-27” Tim Atkin
Tokara Cabernet Sauvignon 2018
Rating: 91 Points
“The younger blocks at Tokara are used to make this pure Cabernet Sauvignon, all of them planted on the flanks of the Simonsberg. The resulting wine is very appealing, with subtle oak, green herb top notes, fine tannins and a core of blackcurrant pastille fruit. 2022-25” Tim Atkin
| WINE | REGION | VINTAGE | STYLE | SCORE |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Tokara Blanc de Blancs MCC | Elgin | 2013 | Sparkling | 93 |
| Tokara Cabernet Sauvignon | Stellenbosch | 2018 | Red | 91 |
| Tokara Chardonnay | Western Cape | 2020 | White | 89 |
| Tokara Director’s Reserve Red | Stellenbosch | 2018 | Red | 95 |
| Tokara Director’s Reserve White | Stellenbosch | 2018 | White | 95 |
| Tokara Reserve Collection Cabernet Sauvignon | Stellenbosch | 2018 | Red | 94 |
| Tokara Reserve Collection Chardonnay | Stellenbosch | 2019 | White | 93 |
| Tokara Reserve Collection Sauvignon Blanc | Elgin | 2020 | White | 93 |
| Tokara Reserve Collection Syrah | Stellenbosch | 2017 | Red | 92 |
| Tokara Telos | Stellenbosch | 2016 | Red | 96 |