Private Seller Auction | Iconic South African Collection and benchmark 2010 Bordeaux
Timed Online Auction, 30 April - 12 May 2025
South Africa - Red
About the SessionThe South African selection is star-studded with rare wines from previous decades.
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Bright, saturated medium ruby. Still-youthful brooding scents of cassis, peppery herbs, tobacco leaf and pungent graphite minerality; an essence of traditional Cabernet. Densely packed, fine-grained and remarkably light on its feet, showing strong pepper-and-herb lift to its cassis and mineral flavors. Shows terrific definition and energy in the middle palate and really echoes on the back end. There's a hint of sweetness here that's nicely buffered by brisk acidity and the wine's firm tannic spine. This is remarkably youthful for its age and I would not be at all surprised if it merited an even higher score in three or four years. 2019-2027' - Stephen Tanzer, Vinous, 91+/100 (Mar 2017)
