New World Icons Gift Box

A three bottle selection from the New World.

2019 Cabernet Sauvignon, Kanonkop Estate, Stellenbosch
Starting with tart red fruits and a dusty mineral essence, the 2019 Cabernet Sauvignon offers notes of black cherry and spiced plum. Medium-bodied and with a ripe, fresh fruit condition, the palate expresses fine-grained tannins with a dusty mineral tension. It ends with a long, spicy finish with persistent pencil lead essences. It's a well-made, sturdy wine that produced 72,000 bottles from wine that rested in 50% new French oak barrels for two years.

2021 Cepas Single Vineyard Malbec, Penedo Borges, Mendoza
Kicks off with expressive, minty blackberry fruit on the nose with notes of roasted coffee and perhaps a sizzling, smoky barbecue. Strikingly fresh and pure for a Malbec, with warm, sweetish bramble fruit, savoury spice and soft ripe tannins. Really characterful and well-balanced.

2011 Pinot Noir, La Crema, Anderson Valley, Mendocino
Upon pouring the wine displays the signature, delicate, pale-ruby colour which many will identify as fine pinot noir. There's a lovely note of maturity on the nose manifesting itself as aromas of leather, tea leaf and wood-smoke wrapped around a core of red berry fruit. The palate offers a swathe of delicate, sweet blackberry, with a hint of blueberry and spice, the fruit is punctuated by a notes of sweet oak which rounds off the finish. The tannins are fine, perfectly integrated and sit on the mid-palate allowing the a medley, akin to a summer fruit compote, laced with elegant, exotic spice to hang on the palate for an obscene amount of time. Perfectly mature and ready to deliver much drinking pleasure, but with the structure and complexity to develop further in the bottle, I have no doubt that those gamey, earthy nuances that lovers of pinot noir crave will emerge in the coming years but it's just so pleasurable as-is that I really don't see it lasting that long.