Made in the traditional style with open tanks and extended skin contact. This Cabernet Sauvignon specialist, Etienne le Riche, has been going at it since 1996…and with huge success! The 2001 is serious and delicious, with spicy oak and sweet cherries. Try it now or keep if you can resist the temptation!

66% Cabernet Sauvignon, 15% Merlot, 10% Malbec,4% Cabernet Franc, 5% Petit Verdot. Intense garnet colour. Vanilla, blackcurrant , cedar and eucalyptus on nose. Full complex fruit and wood flavours on palate. An elegant, bold, ripe rich wine. Very well balanced. Will mature for at least another 5 – 10 years in the bottle.

This wine has a wild nose of spices intermarried with the soft berry character of the Cabernet, blended in such a way that neither cultivar dominates. This "new world" style wine was aged in a majority of heavy toasted American oak barrels, which add to the firm structure of this wine.