Description
This elegant Syrah is made from a unique vineyard scattered with large river stones, resulting in a finely balanced wine that combines power and grace. After basket pressing, the wine was racked directly to barrel for malo-lactic fermentation and matured for 20 months in French oak barrels (about 70% new). The 2019 vintage benefitted from low yields and cool growing conditions, yielding wines with lower alcohol levels and excellent balance between fruit, acidity, and tannin. The wine showcases typical violet, cassis, and black cherry aromas, coupled with the fine, elegant tannins characteristic of Jonkershoek Valley.
Food Pairing: Ideal with ostrich fillet, springbok loin, roasted leg of lamb, venison, game birds, or beef.
Reviews
JancisRobinson.com 17.5/20
Single vineyard. Mostly Cabernet Sauvignon but there is a bit of Petit Verdot, Cabernet Franc and Malbec in there. Cassis and elderberries steeped in framboise. A firm, beautifully meshed but take-no-prisoners matrix of tannins. The fruit, nonetheless, floods through in total defiance of the arrest of tannins. Ravishing fruit! And a scribble of pencil shavings. Very impressive. [Tamlyn Currin, 30/06/2023]
Greg Sherwood 96
The grapes for this vibrant single vineyard wine were hand-picked, sorted, basket pressed and then fermented in small batches before being matured in small French oak barrels for 20 months. The wine was bottled without fining or filtration. The aromatics are piquant, spicy and thoroughly enticing with hints of fragrant black berry confit on warm brown breakfast toast supported by emerging notes of bruleed coffee beans, inky iodine, sweet cherry tobacco, cola, salty cassis and a pronounced under vein of graphite. The palate is super elegant from start to finish, suave, supple and impressively harmonious with a fine textural breadth and depth of black and blueberry saline fruits, soft, sleek silky tannins and all the tell-tale concentration that has come to define this vintage s greatest red wines. Seamless, precise and incredibly well made, this is sultry, seductive Stellenbosch Cabernet Sauvignon at its very best. Drink now or cellar for 12+ years. (8,175 bottles produced.) – Greg Sherwood MW. [Greg Sherwood, 01/01/2023]
