2013 Vintage
Timed Online Auction, 6 - 13 March 2023
2013 Vintage theme
About the SessionJust how well do modern-era South African wines perform as they get older ? One of the most important measures of great wine is that it should be age-worthy, that is it should become more pleasurable and more interesting to drink with time in the bottle.
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About this Item
Vilafonté is a high-profile, internationally collectable wine founded in 1997. Meticulous viticulture and modern cellar practices ensured that Vilafonté is at the cutting-edge of fine wine. The Merlot and Malbec dominated Vilafonté Series M offers more spice and flair, while the Cabernet Sauvignon based Vilafonté Series C is a serious and more structured wine. The maiden vintages offers a perfectly mature and poised wine almost two decades down the line. Series C and M are of the highest scoring Bordeaux-style reds in South wines, recently rated in the 2024 Robert Parker Wine Advocate report as the highest scoring red wine from South Africa, ever. Today Vilafonté is South Africa’s most luxurious and collectable red wine brand.
The flagship range is a duo of Bordeaux blends; Series C and Series M. The former a Cabernet Sauvignon and Cabernet Franc dominant blend whilst the latter is Malbec and Merlot dominant. Both are blended for longevity and barrel-aged in a combination of new and used French oak barrels.
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Critics Ratings
'This Cabernet Sauvignon-based cuvée with Merlot, Cabernet Franc and Malbec is the best release yet from this South African/American collaboration. Dense, serious and yet beautifully refined, it’s a balanced, refreshing, herbal, plum and incense-like red. One to cellar. Drink: 2017-25.' – Tim Atkin MW, SA Special Report 2016, 95/100
'That oak is neatly embroidered into the blackberry and raspberry fruit on the nose - nicely defined and precise, perhaps more focused than its "M" counterpart. The palate is medium-bodied with a supple, nicely poised entry and a keen thread of acidity; it is quite compact in the mouth, but that doesn't matter because the purity is locked in and it lingers long in the mouth. This is very fine, but it will need 3-4 years in bottle to show what it can do.' – Neal Martin, Wine Advocate, 93/100 (Nov 2015)
'Bright ruby-red. Brooding aromas of blueberry, cassis, black cherry, licorice, menthol and minerals, along with some exotic oak tones; conveys an urgent crushed-berry character. Densely packed, penetrating wine with terrific energy and depth and an utterly seamless texture. Cassis, licorice and black cherry flavors are complemented by sexy oak tones. Displays a bit more inner-mouth verve and sweetness than the 2014. Really mounts on the firmly tannic, gripping finish. Lay this one down. Outstanding.' – Stephen Tanzer, Vinous, 93+/100 (Mar 2017)
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