Anatu Family Blend Coastal Region 2008 85 Points

Anatu Family Blend Coastal Region 2008 85 Points


Medium clear, bright cherry red with slight mahogany / brown rim, medium plus concentration, medium plus viscosity, no gas or sediment.

Clean, medium plus intensity, ripe cherries, plums and creamy chocolate, earthy with hints of game (not bretty!), kirsch, touch oaky, perhaps a combination of French and American oak, spicy core, Chin Pee Moi preserved plums, pine resin, cedarwood and some tobacco dust.

Dry, medium plus acidity, medium alcohol, medium tannins, new flavours of crunchy plums, cherries and other red stone fruits with tobacco, leather and earthy note, savoury black olives.

Overall structure delicately extracted, subtlety is the key word here, elegant almost a ripe Pinot in structure, texture and density, medium plus concentration, medium plus lenght, toasty aftertaste.

Blend of Swartland and Malmesbury grown 52% Grenache Noir, 40% Shiraz and 8% Mourvedre, served at 14 degrees celsius and paired with a baked organic aubergine, tomato, potato, broccoli and Parmesan cheese.

One of the best Grenache driven blend tasted to date, now until 2017 if cellared under optimum conditions.