Cape Heritage, Sweets & Fortifieds

Timed Online Auction, 5 - 17 June 2025

Cape Heritage - Red Wines
About the Session

A selection South Africa’s finest wines inspired by our wine history and the unique Cape winelands.


Current Bid

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Lot 69
  • Chateau Libertas; Red; 1957; 1 (1 x 1); 750ml
  • Chateau Libertas; Red; 1957; 1 (1 x 1); 750ml


Lot Estimate
ZAR 22 000 - 40 000
Current Bid
Starting at ZAR 20 000
Location
Wine Storage
Delivery
Delivery within South Africa included
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About this Item

1957 Red
1 (1 x 1) 750ml

One of the most celebrated vintage red wines under this iconic label, this bottle comes straight from the Winshaw family cellar. These rare bottles from the Winshaw family cellar are some of the last known bottles in existence. This wine has been checked and re-corked by Amorim cork under supervision of auction curator Higgo Jacobs, assuring provenance, quality and long life. Seal code ZZ-366970 can be traced on Amorim Recorking Directory

Provenance

Winshaw La Gratitude Cellar

Critics Ratings

'An incredibly youthful, vibrant and aromatic expression, this red wine at 61 years old is the most distinguished stately gentleman of wines I have ever encountered. Loaded full of youthful creme de cassis, boiled black berry sweets, macerated black cherries, earthy ripe prunes, raisined cranberries, fynbos spice, dried mint leaf and a profoundly pure and balanced palate minerality that follows the fruit complexity of the nose. It's not just the mellow concentration and regal balance that astounds the senses, but the sweet fruited glycerol texture, the vibrantly fresh palate and tightly packed sweet mellow tannins that seduce the senses and invite you in for more. This is the stuff of legends, a wine you will want to tell your kids you drank. It's also a wine that not only brought tears to grown winemakers eyes, but also the first perfect score on the Fine Wine Safari and possibly the first ever de facto 100 point score for a South African still wine! Yes!' - Greg Sherwood MW, Wine Safari, 100/100

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