Simply 1 200 barrels have been produced of the chic The Grasp’s Vineyards 2016 Cabernet Sauvignon from the Durbanville Wine Valley – and that’s all there’ll ever be because the vines have been pulled up.
The wine was launched on the Klein Roosboom Boutique Vineyard, a welcoming cease on the Durbanville Wine Valley route, on a sunny day on the finish of November.
It’s the identical area that produced the internationally celebrated 1966 GS Cabernet Sauvignon – in 2015, UK authority Jancis Robinson awarded it an ideal rating of 20/20.
Extra not too long ago, UK Grasp of Wine Tim Atkin described The Grasp’s Vineyards 2016 as ‘an outstanding wine, with cassis and tobacco notes, refined oak and pithy, refreshing acidity’. He awarded it 94 factors.
A legend
The Grasp’s Vineyards is considerably of a legend already: it’s an uncommon collaborative effort between Morgenster Farm, Durbanville Hills and Diemersdal. It matured for twenty-four months in French oak barrels and was bottled in 2018, in the same Claret-style as utilized in 1966, spending three years within the bottle so as to add texture.
The fruit got here from Morgenster’s south-facing slopes and Purple Hutton soils. Though circumstances listed here are excellent for the manufacturing of excellent wines, powerful economics resulted within the uprooting of vines and a change of crop, defined Durbanville Wine Valley supervisor Natasha de Villiers.
Diemersdal and Durbanville Hills joined forces to make the wine, a masterful mix of two wineries, every with their very own distinct presence.
Talking about his first style of The Grasp’s Vineyards, Cape Wine Grasp Bennie Howard mentioned: ‘The fruit was simply wonderful. The cassis was the overwhelming fruit flavour. The second a part of the wine was stability. When it touched my tongue, I assumed: “The wine is simply 5 years outdated and it has this wonderful stability between fruit and tannin!”’
After stability, he mentioned, got here the magnificence and smoothness on the palate, backed up by a ‘stunning, wealthy and improbable aftertaste that retains on lingering’.
The ultimate entry on the palate and the ultimate expertise within the mouth is construction and complexity.
Howard mentioned it had the suppleness of a youthful wine with a promise that hopefully in 50 years’ time individuals would increase a glass and say: ‘Wow that is what SA can produce.
Cabernet Sauvignon icon
In essence, a brand new icon wine has come out of Durbanville. It has the potential to mature for greater than 15 years – or drink it right now with steak, recreation, stews or mature cheese, the place it should maintain its personal.
The 2016 Durbanville Wine Valley The Grasp’s Winery’s Cabernet Sauvignon is offered by three-bottle case for R950 a case from chosen wineries of the Durbanville Wine Valley and on-line at winefly.co.za
The Durbanville Wine Valley is simply about 20 minutes from the Cape City CBD. It’s house to a few of South Africa’s most well-known wineries, resembling Altydgedacht, Bloemendal, Canto, D’Aria, Diemersdal, De Grendel, Durbanville Hills, Hillcrest, Klein Roosboom, Loch Lynne, Maastricht, Meerendal, Nitida, Groot Phesantekraal and Sign Gun.
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