Meerlust
Rubicon 1984
Bordeaux-Style wines from South Africa
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About this Item
The 1984 is one of the finest and increasingly rare vintages of South Africa's most famous red wine.
This wine has been checked and re-corked by Amorim, under the protection of an argon gas blanket, with each opened bottle being topped up with reserve wine from the same vintage, recorked, and resealed. This was done under the supervision of a technical team from Amorim Corks and Strauss & Co Fine wine Specialists Higgo Jacobs and Roland Peens, assuring provenance, quality and long life. The Seal code on the neck of the bottle can be traced on Amorim Recorking Directory
Provenance
Brice & Burnett Private Client
Critics Ratings
"Lovely sweetness on the ’84 that has impressive generosity of fruit and fuller weight than the straight Cabernets. Deep black fruit, black forest cake, ganache and mint liqueur. Classy and youthful, especially from magnum.” – Higgo Jacobs, 95/100 (March 2026 – Tasted at recorking.)
'In an increasingly crowded field of local excellence, this remains among the top South African claret blends; consistently elegant, medium-bodied, carefully oaked, restrained but perfumed, with some classic, minerally, claret undertones. A ripe vegetal/herbal nuance is often apparent, with dried tea leaf associations. A medium-length finish, in a routinely medium-strength wine. The '84, undoubtedly one of the best vintages, was, for well-known French shipper Paul Bouchard, "the finest French claret outside France". Meerlust Rubicons are not big, plummy over-oaked or over-done New World or Californian creations. The aim has been not so much to attack the nostrils, with an upfront bouquet of raw cedary oak, but to go for elegant complexity on the palate.' - Platter's SA Wine Guide 1990, 5*
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