Warwick Estate The First Lady Cabernet Sauvignon 2016

Vines are a bit like people. That is why Warwick has chosen vibrant younger vines for this energetic Cabernet, so that the grapes deliver a wine that is full of life and perhaps a little cheeky. It's every bit a high class Cabernet without all the weight and seriousness of old age. With wafts of liquorice, cigar box and black berry as well as a fresh bouncy whack of fresh red fruit, this wine continues to please and entertain.

Warwick Estate lies in a valley enclosed by the Simonsberg, Kanonkop and Klapmutskop. Originally part of a vast piece of land known as "Good Success", this eighteenth century farm belonged to Colonel Alexander Gordon who renamed his portion in honour of the Warwickshire regiment which he commanded during the Boer War. Years later in 1964, Stan Ratcliffe bought Warwick, where, with considerable foresight he began planting the precious Cabernet Sauvignon vines, which are still a major part of the production today.