Tim Atkin Vintage Highlights
Timed Online Auction, 3 - 20 October 2025
Red Wine
About the Session‘I’m proud to have my name associated with this auction, it’s a celebration of the people, the wines, and the country that I believe are shaping the future of fine wine. Now is the time to buy South African wine, the world is going to discover these wines, and prices will rise.“ – Tim Atkin MW
About this Item
Provenance
Wine Cellar Private Client
Critics Ratings
'Described as "the most challenging wine we work with" by Eben Sadie, this pure Cinsaut is light, scented and charming, with notes of rose petal and candy floss, summer berry flavours and a crunchy, taut, pomegranate-like finish. The challenge was worth the effort. 2018-24' - Tim Atkin MW, SA Special Report 2017, 94/100
'Exceptional clarity of hue, red fruit & purpose in 2016 from old Riebeek-Kasteel cinsaut vineyard courtesy year in neutral foudre. Disarmingly dry (1.9 g/l), tad leaner than usual yet with great persistence & presence, delicate grip for few years ageing. 2014 (4.5 stars, 93 pts) was the last we tasted.' - Platter's SA Wine Guide 2018, 5* (95/100)
'Perfumed bouquet with strawberry and cherry, spice and white pepper. Medium-bodied with linear, tense and thrilling acidity, textured tannins and a lovely earthy minerality behind. Finishes long, pure and crackling with life.' - Alistair Cooper MW, Decanter.com, 94/100 (Jul 2018)
'This brims with delightful red and black cherry fruit allied to a silky structure and backed by light blood orange and mineral notes. Reveals a flash of shiso leaf through the finish. Lovely purity. Cinsault. Drink now through 2020.' - James Molesworth, Wine Spectator, 92/100 (Feb 2018)
'The nose shows a particular poached pear quality as well as black cherry with notes of lavender, earth and spice in the background. On the palate, lovely fruit concentration, lemon-like acidity and fine tannins. The finish meanwhile is long and dry in a way rarely achieved in South Africa - grippy but not astringent making the wine extraordinarily food-friendly and very more-ish. Benchmark stuff.' - Christian Eedes, Winemag.co.za, 94/100 (Aug 2017)
'Described as "the most challenging wine we work with" by Eben Sadie, this pure Cinsaut is light, scented and charming, with notes of rose petal and candy floss, summer berry flavours and a crunchy, taut, pomegranate-like finish. The challenge was worth the effort. 2018-24' - Tim Atkin MW, SA Special Report 2017, 94/100
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