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Lot 61 : Last Elephant 2015 Red Blend (3 X 750ml)
A red wine blended from the best batches the winery can produce every year. Polished black fruit, evident tannins yet supple with a complex palate and a well-integrated modern finish. An iron fist in a velvet glove.
The nose is evocative, showing blackcurrants, red cherries, cedar wood, lead pencil and cigar box aromas. These develop in the glass and are joined by raspberry, black cherry, spice and a hint of gaminess. On the palate, the wine is powerful but elegant, with fine tannins that continue to soften in the glass. A wine that lives up to the mystical legacy of the gentle giants that once roamed the mountains of the Winelands.
Blend Information:
Merlot 52%
Cabernet Sauvignon 29%
Cab Franc 10%
Petit Verdot 9%
Alc: 14% vol
Wine of Origin: Stellenbosch
Lot 62 : Roxton Red Blend 2017 (750ml X 6)
Lot 63 : Kanonkop Kadette 2016 Magnum (1,5L X 3)
Lot 64 : Meerlust Rubicon 2016 (750ml X 3)
The Cabernet Sauvignon, Merlot, Cabernet Franc and Petit Verdot vineyards are hand harvested from February through to March and each individual vineyard block is kept separate throughout the fermentation process and monitored until the moment of blending.
The alcoholic fermentation takes place in stainless steel after which the wine is run off into 300 litre French Oak barrels.
In wintertime, after malolactic fermentation has allowed the personality of each vineyard to assert itself in barrel, the wines are carefully assessed to produce the most expressive, harmonious and complex wine. The blend is assembled and then allowed another year in barrel for the components to harmonise. The wine is finally bottled and left for a further 2 years before release. Rubicon is always released at four years of age and will immediately offer the distinctive character and quality of the Estate. However, further bottle maturation is advised for the intriguing complexity of this classic wine to unfold and reveal itself.
Lot 65 : Skilpadvlei ML Joubert 2018 (750ml X 6)
Lot 66 : Skilpadvlei Sauvignon Blanc 2021 (750ml X 6)
Lot 68 : Meerlust Merlot 2005 (750ml X 2)
Tasting Notes
Deep, youthful purple colour with a ruby rim. A typical Merlot nose with juicy plum and mulberry fruit, lifted spiciness and hints of dark chocolate and inkiness. The palate offers generous, ripe, pure Merlot fruit with refreshing acidity, structured yet silky tannins and pronounced length and minerality.
Blend Information
90% Merlot, 10% Cabernet
Lot 69 : Stellenbosch Hills 2018 Cabernet (750ml x 6)
Tasting Notes:
Stellenbosch Hills Cabernet Sauvignon has gorgeous ripe black cherry and mulberry flavours, subtly enhanced by a whiff of wood-smoke, a brush of vanilla and a sprinkling of pepper.
Serve with:
A superb partner to pasta or any red meat dish.
The Harvest:
The grapes are hand harvested at the optimal time of aromatic concentration – 24° balling. It is of critical essence that the fruit is
healthy, crisp with a good sugar/acid balance.
In the Cellar:
Wine is matured for a period of 16 months in 30% new French oak and the remainder in 2nd and 3rd fill French oak barrels.
