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
3-time IWSC World Winemaker of the Year winner, and winemaker of iconic Kanonkop Estate, Abrie Beeslaar’s own label shot to early fame as one of the finest modern Pinotages to come out of the Cape. Abrie believes that ‘if you are lucky enough to have the right terroir and put in the effort that Pinotage deserves, there is no wine more rewarding’.
Classically balanced Pinotage that shows all the positive aspects of a great wine.
Provenance
Private Client
Critics Ratings
‘Scents of crushed purple violets, fruit cake, sweet tobacco and roasted espresso all dance on the nose of this intense yet layered red. It's rich and bold in feel, but not overdone, with a full palate of seductive dark-fruit flavors and framing tannins that produce a firm structure and chewy texture through the close. It's an infant now, but this classically styled Pinotage has lots of potential ahead of it, so hold until 2024 and enjoy through 2029 for added maturity and harmony.’ - Lauren Buzzeo, Wine Enthusiast, 94/100 (May 2021)
‘Ripe and rich, but 2016 refined enough to make the 14.5% alcohol a surprise, so balanced it is. Plenty of sweet fruit (dark cherries, raspberries) and velvet texture, with tannins molten and soft, though informing, and good acidity. 50% new oak well integrated. 2015 (4.5 stars, 93 pts) as ageworthy.’ – Platter’s SA Wine Guide 2019, 5* (95/100)
'Abrie Beeslaar only makes 5,000 bottles of this rich, oaky, concentrated Pinotage, which makes it something of a collector’s item. With more red than black fruits in 2016, it’s smoky, toasty and textured with lovely fruit sweetness. 2022-30.’ – Tim Atkin MW, SA Special Report 2018, 94/100
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