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The Cabernet Sauvignon portion is from a 16 year old vineyard planted to CS46 on 101-14 MGT rootstock. Granitic hutton soils with an South East aspect, situated at 80 m above sealevel. The Cinsaut is from a bushvine vineyard planted in 1973. Dryland farmed, westerly aspect with sandy duplex soils.

The wines were fermented separately until dry with natural yeasts in traditional open concrete tanks with regular manual plunging. Secondary fermentation proceeded in barrel after which the wines were racked and aged. Blended after a year of ageing and bottled, 25% new French oak.

Le Riche Wines is situated on the slopes of the Helderberg Mountain in close proximity to the historic town of Stellenbosch. The winery was designed to replicate our previous winery in Jonkershoek which was built in 1911. With old style open top concrete fermentation tanks mixed with a modern minimum intervention wine making approach the winery provides a platform to create ultra premium red wines in a classic South African style. Production is 8000—6 cases a year with the Reserve range consisting of only about 1000 cases. The wines are rare but worth sourcing. Le Riche Wines was founded by Etienne le Riche in 1996 and is now run as a family concern. Coming from an illustrious career in the South African wine industry Etienne decided to create a winery where he could express the cultivar he had grown to love and respect Cabernet Sauvignon. The approach was simple to illustrate the nuances of Stellenbosch Cabernets as best possible. Preferring not to be inhibited by estate classification he chose to select grapes from the best possible terroirs Stellenbosch had to offer. The resulting wines have shown great elegance and class consistently proving to be of superb quality and maturation potential.