Cape Heritage Wines
Online-Only Auction, 22 - 29 August 2022
Cape Heritage Wines
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About this Item
Often described as the South African equivalent of a Grand Cru or First Growth, Kanonkop Estate is situated on the Simonsberg mountain slopes on the outskirts of Stellenbosch. Owned by the fourth generation Krige family, Abri Beeslaar is their long-term winemaker who has won International Winemaker of the year an incredible 3 times.
The Black Label was introduced as a limited-edition bottling with the 2006 vintage, cementing the team’s confidence in South Africa’s own red variety. Black Label is made from one of the oldest Pinotage vineyards in South Africa, one planted in 1953 on a site that has over the years proved to produce fruit of specific excellence and deemed special enough to be bottled under an own label.
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Critics Ratings
2006 - ’60-year-old vines. 1 500 bottles made, which sold out in three hours. The complexity is very evident, medicinal, meat. Great craft. Impressive. One to silence the doubters?’ - Richard Hemming MW, JancisRobinson.com, 17/20
‘Shy at first, but time in the glass draws out wafts of roasted coffee, wet earth, toasted exotic spices and dried red fruit. In the mouth there is still great complexity and concentration but the once forthright flavours are dialled down low. Dried leaves, cured meat, polished leather and ripe red plum flavours are carried on supple tannins and fresh acidity.’ - Tina Gellie, Decanter, 93/100 (May 2022)
2007 - ‘A beautifully complete, elegant and flowing wine, maturing gracefully and showing no signs of tiredness. Gentle but complex perfume of blue and purple berries, Christmas spices, redbush tea, mushrooms and dried herbs continue on the lithe, medium-bodied palate. Integrated smoky oak, cleansing acidity and satin-like textured tannins give a fine-boned but strong structure. Super!’ - Tina Gellie, Decanter, 95/100 (May 2022)
2008 - ‘Slightly less full and the best fruit integrity of the line-up. Fresh acidity, appropriate tannic grip. Perhaps the most true to the property.’ - Christian Eedes, Winemag.co.za, 17.5/20 (2012)
‘Delicious now, but still offering great drinking pleasure for several years yet, this is evolving beautifully. Very aromatic and lifted showing a real Christmas baking feel of cinnamon, cloves, brown sugar, currants and even the fir tree freshness. Brisk tannins and minerally acidity flow seamlessly through the elegant palate, lifting medium-bodied flavours of tart red cherry and dried cranberry.’ - Tina Gellie, Decanter, 95/100 (May 2022)
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