Vergelegen 2001 Cabernet Sauvignon
- Type:
Red
- Winery:
Vergelegen
- Vintage:
2001
- Varietal:
Cabernet Sauvignon
- Region:
Stellenbosch
- Vineyard:
How Was It?
About
This spends 22 months in new oak, and is from a single vineyard. Brooding nose of sweet, chocolatey, liqueur-like blackcurrant fruit with complex spiciness. Not at all overdone. The palate is concentrated, rich and sweetly fruited, but is at the same
From the Producer
The estate was settled in 1700 by an early Governor of the Cape, Willem Adriaan van der Stel. Van der Stel used the resources of his employer, the Dutch East India Company, to improve the estate, and in 1706 a number of free burghers at the Cape drew up a
