With a full thirteen years under its cork, Sumaridge Wine Estates 2012 Epitome Cape Blend continues to offer even more than outstanding South African craftsmanship and terroir expression. It offers a glorious maturity and complexity that still shines since wed first offered the vintage a year ago.
Comparable Northern Rhône reds of similar character would command twice the price, yet when by the deft winemaking hands at Sumaridge especially, its another example of South Africa delivering some of the best fine-wine value on the UK market.
Epitome 2021 is indisputably this. From Walker Bays Hemel-en-Aarde Valley sub-region comes cool-climate Syrah (60%) and Pinotage (40%) in a blend of remarkable poise and complexity, which, after over a decade of graceful ageing, now shows gorgeous layers of ripe blackcurrant, mulberry,pepper, tobacco leaf, spice, and smoky oak, all carried on a long, elegant finish. And with the scents and flavours of the season now in the air, here is autumnal drinking at its most rewarding.
Last years offer sold out almost immediately and this current parcel is sure to go the same way.
