Tim Atkin MW · South Africa 2025
The best of
the Cape, 2025.
Tim Atkin tasted just under 2,000 South African wines this year. These are the ones that scored 95 points or better, plus everything he handed an award to.
Tim Atkin tasted just under 2,000 South African wines this year. These are the ones that scored 95 points or better, plus everything he handed an award to.
Questions
Worth a minute before you start.
Tap Add to request on any wine, as many as you like. Then Review and send at the bottom of the screen, fill in your name and a number, and send it on WhatsApp or by email. Nothing is charged from this page.
No. It is a request. We come back to you on what we can get and what it costs, and then you decide. Nothing is bought and nothing is held by sending it.
Tim Atkin MW tastes just under 2,000 South African wines a year and marks them out of 100. Everything on this page scored 95 or better, or won one of his awards. The scores and the awards are his, quoted with attribution; the line under each wine is ours.
Not always, and we would rather say so here than guess. Several are small allocations that go to whoever asks first. We have already left out the wines nobody can buy (the Cape Winemakers Guild auction lots), so everything on this page is worth asking about. Finding out for certain is exactly what we come back to you on.
Collection is free at all three of our stores:
George · 80 York Street
Hartenbos · Shop 2, New Mere Group Building,
34 Kaap de Goede Hoop Avenue
Mossel Bay · Shop 28, Bayview Shopping Centre, Da Nova
We courier nationwide too. The courier and what it costs go into the quote we come back with, so there is nothing to work out here.
The scores come from Tim Atkin’s 2025 report and stand for the year. Availability moves week to week, which is why we confirm what we can get before anything is charged.
Yes. Add the wines and send it again from the same device. It keeps the same request code and the new list replaces the old, so please do not start a fresh one.
The full list, A–Z
All 213 wines, alphabetical by producer. Filter it, or search a name.
The gallery
Every wine at 95 points and up, grouped by score. Scroll each row sideways.
The podium · 2025
Tim’s awards for the year: the people as well as the wines.
Single estates
The houses that showed best this year, and what each of them put on the table.
Send us the list and we’ll come back with what we can get and what it costs. Nothing is bought or reserved by sending this.
Leave the leading nought off. The dialling code goes in the box beside it.
We come back to you on the courier and what it costs. Nothing is charged here.
Your list stays in this page on your own device until you send it. When you send, it reaches our order book and one of us picks it up. We come back to you on price and availability.