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This is an extraordinary success from Steenberg with a fickle and difficult variety that often disappoints outside of Italy. Yet the distinct, antiquarian perfume of the grape is there, all old books, mahogany sideboards and grated nutmeg, with a complex array of dried red fruits and hints of liquorice root, tea leaf and cassia bark underneath. But it’s the tannins which ring resoundingly, authentically true to the variety: firm, architecturally imposing and assertive throughout, they provide structure and shape to one of the most convincing expressions of Nebbiolo outside of Piedmont. With less then 30ha in South Africa, Nebbiolo is a very minor variety but, based on the evidence here, one that has potential in the right sites in the Cape.

Nebbiolo

Steenberg, Nebbiolo, Constantia, South Africa, 2019

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This is an extraordinary success from Steenberg with a fickle and difficult variety that often disappoints outside of Italy. Yet

Steenberg, Nebbiolo, Constantia, South Africa 2019

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