Martin Melck Cabernet Sauvignon Family Reserve - Muratie Estate

With the Muratie Estate Martin Melck Cabernet Sauvignon Family Reserve comes a first-class vegan red wine in the wine glass. Here it offers a wonderfully dense, crimson color. Held at a slight angle, the wine glass reveals a charming garnet red hue at the rims. After the first swirl, this red wine reveals a high density and richness, which is evident in distinct church windows at the rim of the glass. In the glass, this Muratie Estate red shows aromas of blueberries, blackberries, plums, black currants and mulberries, complemented by oak, cigar box and toasted barrel. The Muratie Estate Martin Melck Cabernet Sauvignon Family Reserve presents itself wonderfully dry to the wine lover. This red wine never appears coarse or meager, as one might expect from a wine icon wine segment. This dense red wine is full-bodied and complex on the palate. Due to its lively fruit acidity, the Martin Melck Cabernet Sauvignon Family Reserve reveals itself wonderfully fresh and lively on the palate. The finale of this mature red wine from the wine-growing region Coastal Region, more precisely from Stellenbosch, finally captivates with considerable reverberation.

Vinification of the Muratie Estate Martin Melck Cabernet Sauvignon Family Reserve

The powerful Martin Melck Cabernet Sauvignon Family Reserve from South Africa is a single-varietal wine, vegan vinified from the Cabernet Sauvignon grape variety. After the grape harvest, the grapes are immediately taken to the winery. Here they are selected and carefully crushed. Then fermentation takes place in small wood at controlled temperatures. After its end, the powerful Martin Melck Cabernet Sauvignon Family Reserve is aged for several months in oak barrels. Once the wine is finished, the Martin Melck Cabernet Sauvignon Family Reserve is gently harmonized.

Food recommendation for the Martin Melck Cabernet Sauvignon Family Reserve from Muratie Estate

This South African red wine is best enjoyed at a temperate 15 - 18°C. It is perfect as an accompanying wine to roasted calf's liver with apples, onions and balsamic vinegar sauce, lamb stew with chickpeas and dried figs or goose breast with ginger red cabbage and marjoram.

Awards for the Martin Melck Cabernet Sauvignon Family Reserve from Muratie Estate

This wine from Stellenbosch not only inspires us, no, also renowned wine evaluators awarded it with 90 points and more. Among the ratings are for the vintage 2017

• 96 points (2017 vintage) Prescient Cabernet Report - 93 points Tim Atkin MW 2020 - 94 points
• Platter's Wine Guide 5 stars

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