Burgundy & Champagne
Timed Online Auction, 2 - 12 June 2023
Champagne & Burgundy
About the SessionThe wines of Burgundy and single vineyard Champagnes are produced in small quantities and command high prices. Rarely traded, mature bottles are even more rare in our small market.
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About this Item
Boasting some of the oldest Cabernet Sauvignon vineyards in the infamous Hemel-en-Aarde Valley and situated just 5km from the Atlantic Ocean, Restless River is owned and run by husband and wife team Craig and Anne Wessels. Preferring to do things by hand and producing roughly only 1000 cases of each variety a year.
Critics Ratings
'The 2017 Le Luc Pinot Noir is 20% whole-bunch-fermented. It has a wonderful bouquet, pure and refined, featuring red cherry, cranberry and rose petal aromas that gain intensity with aeration. The medium-bodied palate delivers supple tannins, a svelte texture, fleshy, dense cranberry and crushed strawberry fruit and a slightly bitter-edged finish. This is as delicious as it is fascinating.' - Neal Martin, Vinous, 92/100 (Oct 2019)
'This is the second usable crop from this 1.3-hectare vineyard, but the first release. It's a very promising wine from young vines, showing scented, rose petal and lily aromas, smooth red berry fruit and supporting acidity. One to keep an eye on. 2019-24.' - Tim Atkin MW, SA Special Report 2019, 93/100
Provenance
Wine Cellar Private Client