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.
Vilafonté is the coming together of great wine experience from California and South Africa. The vision that brought together the three founding Vilafonté partners, is the culmination of a life-long dream. An uncompromising determination to produce wines which stand shoulder-to-shoulder with the great wines of the world. Nothing less.
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Critics Ratings
'More herbal and leafy than the 2015, and that gives it a lovely flash of freshness on the palate. Luxurious, svelte and lengthy.' – Richard Hemming MW, JancisRobinson.com, 17.5/20 (Sep 2018)
'There are two Ms in the blend here - dominant Malbec and Merlot - with some Cabernet Sauvignon too. The cooler vintage has produced a wine with more freshness than can be the case here. Smooth, polished and aromatic, it’s stylishly oaked, complex and refined with black fig, violet and graphite notes and a long, tapering finish. Drink: 2017-24.' – Tim Atkin MW, SA Special Report 2016, 94/100
'I much prefer the nose on the 2013 than the 2012: much more control and finesse, great detail and fine minerality developing with aeration. The palate is medium-bodied with the Malbec very expressive and lending to Argentinean flair. There is good structure here, touches of spice sprinkled over the finish and a little surliness that will be abraded by time in bottle. Give it 4-5 years.' – Neal Martin, Wine Advocate, 91/100 (Nov 2015)
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