Meerlust Estate Rubicon, 2021

Violets, blueberries, cocoa, vanilla spices and integrated tannins

Deep purple with an invitingly concentrated nose of mulberry, violets and cedar. On the palate, it’s full-bodied and bold with ripe flavours of cassis, blueberries, blackberries as well as sage,cocoa and fennel. With liquorice, and vanilla spices and tannins that are persistent but well integrated.

• 18 months in French oak
• 96pts Tim Atkin  (Previous Vintage)
• Drink now to 2038

About the producer

It was a stroke of good fortune for us all that winemaker Nico Myburgh noticed the similarities between the terroir of left bank Bordeaux and Stellenbosch. Straight out of the blocks, his first Rubicon vintage in 1980 was received with widespread international acclaim. The accolades that have since followed show that it has only gone from strength to strength