Restless River, Main Road & Dignity, Cabernet Sauvignon, Hemel-en-Aarde Valley, South Africa, 2017

Decant very early and let it breathe both in the decanter and in your glass and let the aromas and flavours expand. A big glass is good. It’s not a big wine, but it’s got big presence. Some vintages are bigger, but this is fine wine, with elegance, finesse and complexity, and a lot of it.

Beautiful blackcurrant, red currant, graphite, a hint of tar, minerality, complex notes of wood and fruit, some tobacco leaf and cedar. What’s exciting is that we have now experienced several vintages, and they all have an amazing quality, and it’s something unique to this terroir.