Meerlust

Cabernet Sauvignon

Name: Cabernet Sauvignon
Brand: Meerlust
Price: 499 ZAR
Availability: InStock
Rating: Tim Atkin 95 (3 reviews)

Cabernet Sauvignon from Stellenbosch, South Africa

R440

Bottle size:

750 ml

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Very deep, youthful colour with an intense garnet hue. The nose shows dark and red fruit mixed with a slight mint note. Still young and intense, the palate is structured and packed with ripe blue berries and wonderfully elegant tannins. Dark chocolate and salted liquorice on the finish. This is a powerful vintage despite the challenging season and will provide great complexity with further maturation. Ageing Potential – 10 - 15 years, provided wine is stored in ideal cellar conditions

Mint

Raspberry

Dark Chocolate

Liquorice

The 2019 season will be remembered for the difficult growing conditions with no Rubicon being released. The carry-over from the 3-year drought was still evident in what was a much smaller harvest. Due to weather conditions, budding was uneven and bunches loose. The growing season itself was relatively cool during the day and night, with triple the amount of rainfall as in the previous two seasons. Most of the blocks were harvested around the normal time, with the exception of later red cultivars such as this Cabernet Sauvignon. The harvest season was characterised by regular rain showers with more than 100 mm recorded from January to March.

Meerlust

Growing fine wines on the Meerlust Estate has been part of the Myburgh family tradition for eight generations beginning in 1756. Long recognized for producing world-class wines the Meerlust Estate is singularly rich in charm and history. A tour of the estate situated fifteen kilometers south of Stellenbosch reveals its graceful manor house classical wine cellar rose gardens family cemetery dovecote and bird sanctuary. The first owner of the property a German immigrant named Henning Huising recognized the beauty and potential of the farm and settled here in 1693. He named his new-found home Meerlust meaning pleasure of the sea as the manor house sits on a granite outcrop only 5 km from False Bay and in the warm summer months the vineyards are refreshed by ocean breezes and evening mists which roll in from the coast. Visitors to the Estate - a National Monument - have for centuries anticipated seeing the cool white façade of the Manor House as they passed through the gates and along the palm and oak tree-lined drive. Not much has changed. Today that sense of having arrived at a most treasured home and estate is enhanced by the knowledge - on seeing the sweep of vineyards that flank the drive - that here grow the grapes of the prized Meerlust wines. Contemporary Meerlust is an exciting fusion of the refreshingly modern and the tirelessly classical.