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.
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 Kanonkop Pinotage has become a consistent flag bearer for the variety in serious clad and is made from bush vines aged up to 64 years old.
Provenance
Wine Cellar Private Client
Critics Ratings
'The 2015 Pinotage has a fragrant and floral bouquet, mainly red fruit, very pure and lifted with black plum and orange rind/marmalade scents. Iodine hints emerge with time. The palate is medium-bodied with a gentle grip. This Pinotage has wonderful balance and is lightly spiced. There's a little more structure than the 2006 with a precise and tensile, mocha-tinged finish. Very fine, if not quite the best that I’ve tasted.' - Neal Martin, Vinous, 91/100 (May 2023)
'You’d expect this wine to be good in a stellar vintage like 2015, and so it is. Wonderfully heady and aromatic, with classic red berry flavours, fine-grained tannins, savoury tannins and the balance and length that are typical of Kanonkop’s reds. 2019-27' - Tim Atkin SA Wine Report 2017, 94/100
'A compelling nose of plums, cherries, earth, vanilla and spice while the palate possesses a great core of fruit, fresh acidity and firm tannins. Perhaps a slight bitterness on the finish but increasingly I think this taste, at least at low levels, goes towards complexity and is therefore something to be embraced. Delicious now, it nonetheless has all the structure to mature with benefit and deserves a place in any serious collector’s cellar.' - Christian Eedes, Winemag.co.za, 93/100 (2017)
'A juicy, racy style, with deliciously pure plum and blackberry compote flavors enlivened by an anise note that lingers through the finish. Features dark fruit but remains bright and fresh in feel. Well done. Drink now through 2020.' - James Molesworth, Wine Spectator, 91/100 (Sep 2016)
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