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Critics Ratings

'The 1994 is traditional in style with a freshness that belies its age, red berry fruit and delicate complexity.' - Roland Peens, 91/100 (2019)

'For many - including followers abroad - this remains an ultimate name and statement in Cape claret style. Rubicon remains the quintessence of refined understatement - serious, medium-textured vinosity, ripe but not overripe berry flavours, moderate grip from tannins, essentially dry rather than fruity-sweet. Winemaker Dalla Cia considers Rubicon a "better, richer, more complex wine than cabernet sauvignon on its own could ever be". Here, the blend is about 65-70% cabernet, 20-25% merlot, balance Cabernet. Franc. New Nevers barrel-matured about 18 months to 2 years, through malo. Dalla Cia has never wavered stylistically: while others see-sawed between bold fruity "New World modernity" and "Cape tradition" this Bordeaux-style standard-bearer has kept a constant course, for nearly 2 decades, openly aiming at European restraint and vinosity. 94 splendid array of layered fruit, tannin, oak.' - Platter's SA Wine Guide (1999)