R900 - R1,200
2002 Brampton Cabernet Sauvignon/Merlot
x 6 bottles 750ml
PLEASE NOTE THIS WINE IS IN JOHANNESBURG
A Bordeaux style blend of 51% Cabernet Sauvignon, 45 % Merlot, 4% Petit Verdot.
In 2003, Jancis Robinson was impressed by this wine in a tasting for British Airways First Class. She went on to write on her website: "Brampton started off life as recently as 1996 as the second label of much-admired South African wine producer Rustenberg* (which can trace its history back to 1682!). Vineyards were being replanted so they needed a name for selling the produce of bought-in fruit. But the wines have managed to establish a fine reputation on their own account and sit quite happily alongside the much more expensive and revered Rustenberg bottlings Peter Barlow and John X Merriman. The proportion of home vineyard fruit used is steadily increasing and the wines are all given very decent oak aging with some malolactic in small barrel...It's very fresh and ripe yet has nice biscuity depth due, I imagine, to a some bottle aging effect. This is just the sort of wine, among hundreds, to send shivers round Bordeaux which, to my knowledge, finds it hard to produce this much sheer drinking pleasure at this price."
*Rustenberg sold Brampton in 2010 to DGB.
Fees apply to the hammer price:
Room and Absentee Bids:| 1 to 10000: | 23% inc VAT* |
| 10001+: | 19.55% inc VAT* |
| 1 to 10000: | 23% inc VAT* |
| 10001+: | 19.55% inc VAT* |
