Le Riche, David & Nadia and Restless River
Timed Online Auction, 7 - 22 April 2025
Le Riche
About the SessionLe Riche Cabernet Sauvignon Reserve is a South African benchmark, produced by Christo le Riche who took over from his father Etienne, a legend of the industry.
ZAR 5 000
About this Item
The highly coveted Le Riche Reserve Cabernet Sauvignon is the flagship wine, crafted exclusively from the finest Cabernet Sauvignon vineyard blocks in Stellenbosch. This limited-production wine represents the pinnacle of the range and has become a New World benchmark for the varietal. The Reserve designation is awarded only when the grapes and resulting wine meet the estate's highest standards, ensuring an exceptional expression of Stellenbosch Cabernet Sauvignon.
'Classic ripe cherry fruit flavours, with spicy oak on the nose. The palate is rich and succulent with smooth, juicy tannins and a firm acidity. An extra dimension of complexity has been added by 20 years of maturation.' - Winemakers tasting notes.
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'According to Etienne Le Riche, this is one of his greatest Cabernet Sauvignons, which might explain why it was John Platter's Red Wine of the Year in 2005. Terrific elegance and definition here, with flavours of grilled meat, cassis, licquorice, graphite and tobacco. Beautifully evolved undergrowth notes and ripe sweet tannins. A blend of Cabernet fruit from Firgrove, and Jonkershoek this was made in classical open top concrete fermenters. Ready now, but plenty of life and pleasure still to come. A corker of a Cabernet.' - John Stimpfig, Decanter.com, 93/100 (Sep 2015)
'A Cape classic, & 05 our Red Wine of the Yr. More oak (2 yrs 70% new) than standard version to cushion greater fruit intensity. Excellently balanced, with fine vinosity, good dry finish. Splendid structure assures further development - as for 04.' - Platter's SA Wine Guide 2013, 5* - Red Wine of the Year
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