Family Reserve Cabernet Sauvignon: Winelet

Bacon-wrapped blue cheese stuffed dates or a savoury mushroom tart would make the perfect start to your meal followed with a good juicy steak, especially slightly fattier steaks like ribeye and sirloin, slow-braised lamb shanks, venison, ostrich, or duck. Grilled portobello mushrooms, eggplant dishes or a smoky black bean burger are great plant-based alternatives. End your meal with a cheese and nut board especially hard cheese like aged cheddar, gorgonzola, and hazelnuts, or enjoy with fresh berries with zabaglione, a blackberry sorbet, or some dark chocolate

Trade Winds Cabernet Sauvignon 2019 Family Reserve is made from grapes from low-yielding vines in Stellenbosch, South Africa’s outstanding Cabernet Sauvignon region. 2019 saw the smallest wine harvest for 14 years, largely due to the preceding three-year drought. The quality however was high. The cool weather conditions constituted smaller berries with a greater concentration of flavours and good acidity.

The wine was matured in 250lit French oak barrels, 2nd fill (no new wood) for a period of 18 months

With the ebb and flow of the tide and the cool breeze blowing off the Southern Ocean, Trade Winds present their wines from prime vineyards of the Western Cape, located near the tip of Africa.