EDITORS' PICKS

Each month our editorial team tastes a lot of wine, but not all of it makes it onto the page. So here’s our in-house pick of other great wines we've tried

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Inzuzo: the bigger picture JULIE SHEPPARD

As reported in the April issue, South Africa is a hotbed of exciting young winemaking talent. So I jumped at the chance to meet Kaylin Willscott, assistant winemaker at Journey's End in Stellenbosch, during her first visit to London. She was in town to talk about the Inzuzo Wine Co, a community-focused company owned by the workers at Journey’s End. Profits are used to support projects in the nearby village of Sir Lowry’s Pass, where many team members and their families have lived for generations; inzuzo means ‘benefit’ or ‘reward’ in Zulu and Xhosa. The goal is to build and run an early childhood development centre to plug a gap in state funding for early-years education. ‘It is a dream project for me to combine winemaking with outreach,’ says Willscott. Her Inzuzo range includes a selection of Transformative varietal wines (due in the UK this September) and four blends. I loved the pomegranate-fruited Big Picture Red 2024 (£14.95 Cellar Door Wines) and Chenin-led Big Picture White 2024, already in UK restaurants. But stars of the show were the Signature SLPVs - a vibrant Sauvignon-Semillon and perfumed Cinsault-Grenache. ‘The range is a collage of experiences from my life,’ Willscott says. ‘It ends up being the big picture.

Bubbles at Berlucchi AMY WISLOCKI