JeromeHan- Derononcourt def makes wines with more unctuousness. But for those that like his old world stuff, they might want to try his Napa stuff out.
I love me some Almaviva. I like its balance better than Cheval des Andes. Cheval can be a gigantic wine.
It’s subjective but I’m not sure that this applies going forward (or has applied for the last couple of years), since I believe they source most of their juice from California now, and at least to my palate the quality has dropped over the years.
I have enjoyed a number of wines from World’s End, the Napa project of Jonathan Maltus, of Le Dome/Teyssier fame (https://www.maltus.com/), noting that there has been some tricky variation among vintages.
Bouchard-Finlayson in Hemel in Aarde Valley - tie up between Bouchards of Burgundy and Finlaysons of South Africa - excellent Burgundian style (natch) Pinot noir
L’Avenir Estate in Stellenbosch, bought by Laroche of Chablis
Chabivin in Stellenbosch - (sparkling wines) 50/50 venture with Charbout Champagne family of Epernay
Also Rupert & Rothschild, but the Rothschild here is Benjamin and I don’t if he’s a member of the winery Rothschilds
Don’t know when you visited/tasted, but there have been improvments here. As a completely new operation wines were made from bought-in grapes until Glenellys own vineyards were in production.
Glenelly’s estate red wines are
Lady May which is 85% Cab S, 10% Petite Verdot and 5% Merlot
Reserve (used to be ‘Grand Vin’) which is interestingly a 40/40% blend of Shiraz & Cab S, with 10% each Petite Verdot & Merlot
also a Reserve Chardonnay
so Mme Lencquesaing isn’t trying to duplicate todays Bordeaux, though she says the Reserve is an echo of old time Bordeaux which added Syrah
Theres a second label 'Glass Collection with single variety Cab S. Merlot, Shiraz and Chardonnay
Also,
Escapades in Stellenbosch
Founded and owned by Greek winemakers/winery owners
Vangelis Gerovassiliou of Domaine Gerovassiliou and Vassilis Tsaktsarlis of Biblia Chora Estate