Alheit Vineyards | Sadie Family Wines | Vilafonté
Live Virtual Auction, 10 October 2021
Fine Wine
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About this Item
Vilafonté is a high-profile, internationally collectable wine founded in 1997. Meticulous viticulture and modern cellar practices ensured that Vilafonté is at the cutting-edge of fine wine. The Merlot and Malbec dominated Vilafonté Series M offers more spice and flair, while the Cabernet Sauvignon based Vilafonté Series C is a serious and more structured wine. The maiden vintages offers a perfectly mature and poised wine almost two decades down the line. Series C and M are of the highest scoring Bordeaux-style reds in South wines, recently rated in the 2024 Robert Parker Wine Advocate report as the highest scoring red wine from South Africa, ever. Today Vilafonté is South Africa’s most luxurious and collectable red wine brand.
'intense and expressive' - Zelma Long
From the long, slowly ripening 2007 vintage, the Series M is a Merlot-inspired blend that impresses when young and with age. A Malbec and Merlot dominant blend, opulent in nature, with a defining structure of Cabernet Sauvignon.
Critics Ratings
‘A dense red, showing layers of fig, plum sauce, hoisin sauce and melted licorice snap flavors, allied to a strong graphite spine. Offers lots of grip, with extra notes of maduro tobacco and anise weaving in on the finish. Cabernet Sauvignon, Merlot, Malbec and Cabernet Franc ... 950 cases made.’ Wine Spectator, 92/100
‘Dense, violet-perfumed, dark-fruited ‘07 near-equal blend of Cab, Merlot, Malbec with 5% Cabernet Franc; ripe tannins still mask fullness of compact fruit core, spicy finish from 16 months 40% new French oak; very tight still - needs years in bottle. WO Paarl.’ - Platter’s SA Wine Guide 2010, 4.5*
‘More delicate and perfumed than the 2011 and 2013, but with just as much depth and intensity of fruit as the younger wines. Lovely fibrous tannin.’ - Richard Hemming MW, JancisRobinson.com, 17.5/20 (Sept 2018)
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