Stellekaya Cabernet Sauvignon Stellenbosch SA (2022)
Wine Tasting Notes
Stellekaya's 2022 Cabernet Sauvignon is deep and intense, with cassis, blackcurrant and a hint of cranberry lifted by cedar, pencil shavings and a touch of lavender. Full-bodied, it builds a velvety mid-palate of sweet dark fruit and black cherry. Fine-grained tannins and fresh acidity keep that richness balanced. Toasty oak lingers on the long finish. Enjoy it now with a grilled ribeye or rack of lamb, or cellar it for many years as it gains complexity.
Winery/Producer Highlights
Stellekaya — Stellekaya is a family-owned Stellenbosch winery that makes only barrel-matured reds. Dave Lello founded it with a debut 1999 vintage, and Jane Lello has led it since 2016. Its cellar sits at Bosman's Crossing, in part of a historic brandy house, where the team hand-sorts and cold-macerates the fruit, punches it down in open fermenters and presses it in a wooden basket press. This hand-harvested Cabernet Sauvignon was aged 24 months in first- and second-fill French oak barriques. It is named for Antares, the red heart of Scorpius.
Descriptive Words
Intense, Cassis, Velvety, Cedar, Age-worthy
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