Cabernet Sauvignon Shiraz

Rated 31/2 Stars in John Platter Guide to South African Wine (2008).

A LOT MORE WINE THAN YOU’RE PAYING FOR.

A History

At the 2005 Classic Wine Trophy competition, only ten Gold Medals were awarded by the French judges to 325 red wines. Most of these wines were the crème de la crème their estates had to offer, many fetching up to R300 a bottle. One wine, however, stole the show. And, much to everyone’s astonishment, our 2003 Cabernet Sauvignon Shiraz fetched under R50 a bottle from the cellar door! You see, if a wine has the name Hartenberg on its label, regardless of its price, it has to meet our uncompromisingly uncompromising standards of quality. It has to be the good stuff.

What Cinderella drank at the ball.

Name:	Cabernet Sauvignon Shiraz
Vintage:	2006
Awards:	3,5 Stars – Platters Wine Guide (2008), RSA
Production:	5000 cases
Barrel Ageing:	19 months in 3rd and 4th fill French oak barrels
Maturation:	Up to 5 years from vintage
Alcohol:	14.51% by volume
Residual Sugar:	2.3 g/l
Total Acid:	5.8 g/l
PH:	3.60
Food Matching Grilled or roasted game fish (without a lemon-based sauce), pizza (not too much chilli), stews, grills. For pudding - pears in red wine, particularly if the red wine used is this wine.
Tasting Note Peppery and spicy with rich berry aromas and fruit flavours, this wine has style and elegance that belies its price. You'd be pressed to find a better value for money red wine in South Africa.
Independent Tasting Note “Berry fruits, supple tannin, zesty acidty, easy drinking.” - Platters (2010)

Sssssssh! We won’t tell if you don’t, but this is a much better wine than its price would suggest.

In much the same way that many Bordeaux chateaux have their “second” wines, this has been ours since 1991.

Specific vineyard blocks supply the major portion of the blend. However (due to our near fanatical selection criterea) there are always grapes grown for our Super Premiums which just don’t make the grade - grapes which then find themselves in this wine, often giving it a classier character than many wines double or triple the price.

Once the final blend was made for our 2004 vintage (a very good year for reds in Stellenbosch too!) the wine was taken to 100% small French oak, where it remained for fourteen months.

Roasted game fish with eggplant.

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