Spottswoode Estate Cabernet Sauvignon Lyndenhurst 2016 (750ML)

95 WE / 94 JS / 16++ JR

This wine continuously overdelivers for its price point, offering elegantly powerful flavors of fig, forest and earth. Grippy in firm tannins, it dances in secondary notions of black currant, sage, cedar and flint, with spicy clove lingering on the finish. Editors’ Choice. Wine Enthusiast

Attractive, fresh, violet-like flowers, roasting herbs and cassis, leading to a medium-to full-bodied palate that has a smoothly succulent resolve at the plum-soaked, velvety finish. A blend of mostly cabernet sauvignon with touches of petit verdot, merlot, petite sirah and cabernet franc and a dash of malbec. Drink or hold. James Suckling

Bright crimson. Aromatic and direct. Not nearly as complex yet as the 2010, which showed the ageing potential of this wine. Sweet start and certainly approachable. Very different from the grand vin. Jancis Robinson