100% Pinot Noir
Wine of Origin Upper Hemel-en-Aarde Valley
One lot only – 6 bottles (6 x 750ml) comprising three bottles of Newton Johnson Family Vineyards Seadragon Pinot Noir 2015 and three bottles of Newton Johnson Family Vineyards Windansea Pinot Noir 2016.
Both of these wines have been cellared to the point of ideal bottle maturation, development and enjoyment, with a wealth of additional cellaring potential.
Seadragon Pinot Noir 2015 (3 x 750ml bottles)
The 2015 Seadragon is the first wine from this vineyard to be bottled under this name. It was scored 96 in Tim Atkin’s 2016 report and Seadragon has featured on the front cover of Decanter Magazine (February 2020) as one of the New World’s best single vineyard Pinot Noirs.
Tasting Notes: Ornate with high floral notes. Complex and lustrous red fruit core, with the prickle of spices and black cherry in the periphery. Symmetric structure, fine and taut, that leads to a long finish.
Ready for drinking from now for the next 15 years.
This wine was previously sold on the 2017 CWG Auction.
Alc: 13.78 RS 2.0 TA 5.6 pH 3.6
Windansea Pinot Noir 2016 (3 x 750ml bottles)
The 2016 Windansea is from a vintage of incredible density and age-worthiness and tends to need a little more time than Seadragon. It was scored 95 points in Tim Atkin’s 2017 report and has held that benchmark (and higher) with every succeeding vintage.
Tasting Notes: A deep concentration of supple and sleek black fruit, embroidered with lucid red fruits. Tertiary elements of stone and graphite deepen to a savoury black core of texture and fibrous tannins.
Ready for drinking from 2021 for the next 15 years.
This wine was previously sold on the 2017 CWG Auction.
Alc: 13.07 RS 2.2 TA 5.9 pH 3.54
This wine has been stored in the CWG’s temperature and humidity-controlled Vinotheque since the year of Auction.
This wine is packed in a wooden box.
This lot sold for R9 500 excl VAT