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Buy OnlineWinery notes (2016 Vintage)
"Cinsaut has a very thin skin and is prone to sunburn, so we opted to pick slightly earlier and ended up picking this vintage very fresh on a first impression, but the resulting wine still ended up with 13.5% alc and did gain the needed volume and mid-palate weight. It is very bright and has super red fruit and a linear, very strict character— like being on a tightrope. It follows through with amazing texture and firm tannins. Unfined and unfiltered. Decanting recommended."
94/100 Alistair Cooper MW, Decanter UK (2016 Vintage)
"Perfumed bouquet with strawberry and cherry, spice and white pepper. Medium-bodied with linear, tense and thrilling acidity, textured tannins and a lovely earthy minerality behind. Finishes long, pure and crackling with life."
92/100 Wine Spectator (2016 Vintage)
"This brims with delightful red and black cherry fruit allied to a silky structure and backed by light blood orange and mineral notes."
Reviews for the 2015 vintage below…
94/100 Meal Martin, Robert Parker's Wine Advocate, April 2017 (2015 Vintage)
"The 2015 Old Vine Series Pofadder, the 100% Cinsault from Eben Sadie, come from slate soils that are not decomposed. It has a pure and mineral-driven bouquet, beautifully defined with red cherries and crisp strawberry fruit, a stoniness tucked just underneath. The palate is medium-bodied with crisp acidity, tensile and linear, brimming with freshness and energy with raspberry and just a tinge of black cherry on the finish. Superb Cinsault, nuanced and detailed, an intellectual wine that will age with style."
92/100 Stephen Tanzer's International Wine Cellar (2015 Vintage)
"(100% whole-bunch fermentation; aged in large 25-year-old foudres): Bright, moderately saturated medium red. Pungent perfume of raspberry, strawberry, sandalwood, wild savoury herbs and spices. Juicy, bright, dry and penetrating; doesn't deliver quite the sweetness or depth promised by the nose but this is wonderfully delineated, perfumed and light on its feet, and an utterly distinctive red wine. More refined than the 2014 version, without that wine's rustic hints: this is all red berries, spices and botanical herbs. Finishes with a fine dusting of tannins and sneaky length. If this wine was from southern France, I would probably have scored it even higher owing to its precision and cleanliness."
