2007 Nativo Swartland Red Cape Blend 77 points

2007 Nativo Swartland Red Cape Blend 77 points


Clear, bright dark cherry red with slight mahogany rim / purple rim, sort of the border line between precocious maturity and holding back to it’s youth! If it’s cellared wrongly it will aged prematurely and brown quicker compare if it’s in a controlled cellar, that might slow it down.


Clean, overripe plum/prunes, dried cranberry, iodine / seaweedy, high Mourvedre percentage?, earthy, dried tobacco note, subtle oaking, most probably French oak and old barrel, that’s where it ends, stalky and herbaceous at the same time.

Dry, over extracted style, drying tannin, will the fruit support, experience tell me not!

Touch bitterness / phenolic. Drink now until 2013

Unlabelled sample tasted