2015 Vintage
Timed Online Auction, 28 February - 10 March 2025
2015 Vintage - Red
About the Session"The 2015 vintage is widely regarded as one of the finest of the modern era out of the Cape", says senior wine specialist Higgo Jacobs.
About this Item
Crafted with patience, careful restraint and vision by Winemaker Morné Vrey and his team, the Laurence Graff Reserve exemplifies a pursuit of perfection and its namesake passion for the truly exceptional.
Laurence Graff OBE established Graff in London in 1960, his fascination with the emotional power of gemstones transformed the House into a global hallmark of innovation and excellence. While the greatest forces of nature have given us rough diamonds, it takes the hands of an artisan to make light dance through a stone, and in the same way, each grape within the vineyard holds a story that can only unfold at the hands of a master winemaker.
Provenance
Private Client
Critics Ratings
'The LGR, named after the owner of this spectacular property, is a varietal Cabernet sourced from a single block planted in 2000. There are only a few thousand bottles to go around of this ambitious, ageworthy red. Structured, concentrated and very well balanced with fresh acidity and layers of fruit complexity. Up a point with an extra year in bottle. 2021-35' - Tim Atkin MW, SA Special Report 2019, 97/100
'One-hundred-percent Cabernet Sauvignon, the 2015 Laurence Graff Reserve has a rich and voluminous nose filled with red and purple flowers, ripe black fruit and a dusty red-fruited core with oak aromas that are a constant. Splashing down on the palate, the wine is full-bodied and smooth across the palate but leads toward a solid tannin structure over the black fruit and oak. The wine ends with a pleasing complexity that is in focus on the long finish.' - Anthony Mueller, Wine Advocate, 92+/100
'Big, powerful Cabernet, but the quality of dark-bright fruit, suppleness of ripe & forceful tannins, well absorbed 80% new oak & overall excellent balance mean that 2015's rippling musculature has some grace & is not flashily showy.' - Platter's SA Wine Guide 2020, 4.5* (93/100)
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