winemaker's notes:
Made in a highly
reductive way in order to maximize the fruit personality of the
vintage, the 2008 shows more marked fruit aromatics than usual, while
maintaining the typical Southern Right balance of Old World minerality
and length with hints of New World palate coverage and body. 2008 is a
wine that favours origin expressive individuality, minerality and
palate complexity ahead of pure, pungent varietal aroma. A percentage
of fruit from clay-rich soil has added an intense mid-palate structural
component and addition overall complexity to this wine.
"Gooseberry, pepper, fresh herbs and licorice on the nose and
palate. Vibrant and varietally accurate; at once rich and gripping,
with uncompromising dryness. Finishes brisk and perfumed, with lively
hints of lemon peel and quinine. These vines are planted in a cool site
barely two miles from the South Atlantic. Anthony Hamilton Russell is a
co-founder here."
International Wine Cellar
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