Inaugural Fine Wine
Live Auction, 8 June 2019
Session 1
Lot Estimate Change Currency
ZAR 30 000 - 50 000
Selling Price
Incl. Buyer's Premium & VAT
Incl. Buyer's Premium & VAT
ZAR 34 140
Auction Catalogue
About this Item
Vin de Constance 1986
1 (1 x 1) 500ml
The property was restored in 1983 and just two barrels of the 1986 were made under winemaker Ross Gower. The resurrected 'Vin de Constance' has once again become one of the world's greatest sweet wines. 1986 was the first modern era vintage and is still in perfect condition, having been recorked at Klein Constantia. Very little is known about how the 1986 vintage was made, but the tiny harvest would have been macerated on the skins before a hard pressing designed to extract not just sugar and flavour but tannins too, giving the finished wine more texture. This is an incredibly rare and sought-after vintage.
Provenance
Private Client
Critics Ratings
'Intense, lifted, fresh honey and lemon bouquet. Racy, minerally acid lends vivid clarity to the rich fruit, silky texture. Excellent balance. Incisively clean, long. Amazingly youthful.' Angela Lloyde
'Startling caramelised orange nose, smoky, a touch of rancio, vivid. Medium bodied, moderate concentration, good acidity, a trace of oxidation, yet vibrant, with some tropical fruit. Peppery finish, fine length.' Stephen Brook, Decanter magazine.
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