Cape Heritage and The Loire
Timed Online Auction, 1 - 12 August 2024
Cape Heritage - Red Wines
About the SessionThe Cape Heritage Red Wine Session features 25 lots from The Tabernacle – the famous underground cellar in Stellenbosch that houses some of South Africa’s most spectacular vinous historical treasures. All the lots from The Tabernacle have been recorked; each bottle was opened for inspection, under the protection of an argon gas blanket, and Strauss & Co fine wine specialist Higgo Jacobs along with Amorim tasted and assessed each wine. The wines were topped up with wine from the same vintage, recorked and resealed, all under the supervision of a technical team from Amorim Corks.
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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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Wine Cellar Private Client
Critics Ratings
‘Mid-deep garnet. Nice intensity of brawn, some forest-floor notes, spicy oak, balsamic and dried black fruit. A fresh thread of acidity with a medium-full body, mature, fine-grained tannins and an integral, tobacco-laced finish. A pleasure.’ - Tim Jackson MW, JancisRobinson.com, 17/20 (May 2022)
‘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.com, 95/100 (May 2022)
‘The aromatics on the 2008 are expressive and vibrant with plenty red and black berry fruits, black cherry, tart plum and subtle polished mahogany nuances. On the palate there is a real sweet and sour red raspberry fruited intensity with vibrant tart acids, a sleek elegant generosity but also a fine taut vein of crunchy berry fruits. Lovely energy and brightness, this really shows its own character.’ - Greg Sherwood MW, 94+/100 (Nov 2022)
‘Ambitiously priced and produced in small quantities, this could change your mind about the potential quality of Pinotage, the Cape’s red wine USP. It’s a remarkable wine – more Pinot Noir than Cinsault with none of the variety’s rougher edges. Subtle and very complex with sweet raspberry, bramble and spice, smooth tannins, well integrated oak and minerally length. And to think that this was only a “three star vintage” at Kanonkop, according to Jann Krige. Drink: 2013-20’ - Tim Atkin MW, SA Special Report 2013, 97/100
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