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Goedverwacht, J & G Cabernet Sauvignon, Robertson 2020
Here's a pure Cape Cabernet, showing a whiff of smokey oak (from eight months in barrel) over black fruit. With lots of flesh, mildly bittersweet black fruit and negligible tannin, it's juicy, vital and approachable. Now-2023 This... Read More
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ColourRed
RegionRobertson
Grape VarietyCabernet Sauvignon
Vintage2020
ABV14%
Bottle75cl
ClosureScrewcap
CodeGDV320
Cabernet Sauvignon
The most prestigious red grape?
Origins
- Bordeaux region, as a natural cross of Sauvignon Blanc and Cabernet Franc (established 1997 by DNA analysis)
- Was known as Vidure or Petit-Vidure
- Spread throughout left bank of Bordeaux, supplanting white grapes
Characteristics
- Fairly easy to grow: hardy, buds...
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Goedverwacht, J & G Cabernet Sauvignon, Robertson 2020
Here's a pure Cape Cabernet, showing a whiff of smokey oak (from eight months in barrel) over black fruit. With lots of flesh, mildly bittersweet black fruit and negligible tannin, it's juicy, vital and approachable. Now-2023
This is the first time we have shipped this wine, a bottling of just nine barrels (so about 3,300 bottles). The J G on the stands for Jan and Gawie, Du Toit father and son, owners of this (for us) large estate in Robertson, with some 180 hectares of vines. The last fifteen years have seen clear improvements here, with better matching of new plantings to the the site.
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