Dry Red 1984

At over forty years of age, these bottles of Rustenberg Dry Red 1984 are exceptional rarities: wines from a period when the Cape's top producers were quietly crafting red wines of genuine European classical refinement, decades before South Africa's modern wine renaissance attracted global attention. The 1984 Stellenbosch vintage was characterised by cool, even ripening conditions that produced wines of classical elegance and fine natural acidity.

Produced from Rustenberg's Simonsberg farm at a time when the estate was already among the Cape's most admired, the 1984 Dry Red has spent more than forty years developing the complex secondary aromas of mature Stellenbosch Cabernet: dried tobacco, forest floor, faded red fruits and warm cedar spice. Made by Cabernet specialist Etienne le Riche, the Rustenberg reds from this era contained a good helping of Cinsault in the blends with Cabernet Sauvignon, driving a style of classic, elegant wines unique to the Cape that inspired the generation to follow.

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