THE SADIE FAMILY WINES – COLUMELLA – THE SADIE FAMILY COLUMELLA 2014
Notes de dégustation: c’est à ce stade un millésime un peu introverti, plus sur la structure que sur le fruit. Il n’est pas sans ressembler au millésime 2011. Cet assemblage provient de huit vieux vignobles du Swartland. Il est exceptionnel, d’une grande complexité et d’une grande densité́ aromatique. La palette aromatique est centrée sur les fruits rouges épicés avec des arômes et des saveurs de violette et de bleuet. La finale de bouche est resserrée par les tannins. Les notes de graphite s’accordent parfaitement avec l’impression initiale de velouté et de soyeux et ne demandent qu’à s’exprimer plus pleinement avec le temps. C’est un vin de grande classe qui possède une capacité́ de garde de plus de 20 ans.
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VIN : THE SADIE FAMILY COLUMELLA 2014 |
The 2014 Columella comes in a 13.65% alcohol, the lowest since 2000 according to Eben Sadie. « I am not looking for a wine that necessarily goes BOOM when it’s first shown…I want a wine to age. There is no new oak now used during the élevage. When we look chemically at this wine, it is much more age-worthy than what we were making in 2010: there is a lot more CO2, the tannins are around 30% less ripe, a combination of the picking date and the grape variety, which makes them more oxygen stable. » It has a brooding bouquet with brambly black fruit, briary, wild heather and cold stoney aromas. The palate is medium-bodied with sappy red and black fruit, very well balanced with crisp but firm tannins. The fruit feels blacker than previous vintages, a little more salinity towards the finish that conveys a subtle marine influence. It is a more introspective take on Columella, but this lends it an intellectual rather than hedonistic bent that I think was not a characteristic of the wine in its earlier vintages. Robert Parker. The Wine Advocate. 96/100.