Music Room Cabernet Sauvignon – 2020

R 380.00 per bottle (6 per case)

Elsie Fraser-Munn, Flagstone’s Founder, Bruce Jack’s grandmother, was a legendary music teacher and performer. In her Music Room, practice made perfect. Patience, dedication and attention to detail are similarly required to craft great Cabernet. The music on the front label is a beautiful choral piece composed for Bruce’s grandmother by the renowned South African composer, Peter Klatzow. Every year we court disaster with the weather, leaving the grapes to hang long past when it is safe for grapes to be out and about. We just pray each day the next hot, dry, north wind isn’t going to blast it flat and shrivel the berries beyond recognition. The resultant aromas and flavours of these heroic vineyards are expressed more as complex, ethereal summer fruits like blueberry, cassis and black-ripe youngberry. This density of red berry flavours is framed by herbs like basil and fresh thyme.

90% Cabernet Sauvignon, 10% Merlot
Alc: 14.71%   RS: 3.2g/L    pH: 3.59   TA: 5.8g/L

SKU: 590833 Categories: , , ,

Tasting Notes

Wine style
Sweet | 1 2 3 4 5 | Dry
Light  | 1 2 3 4 5 | Full bodied

Colour
Deep purple colour.

Bouquet
On the nose blueberry, cassis, and ripe black plum mix with cool cedar whiffs and the faintest hint of basil – all wrapped up in serious, warm, toasty oak.

Palate
The palate is all about chunky, chewy, magically integrated tannin. Luxurious deep-pile velvet fruit with mint-sprigged red berries and Christmas fruitcake. A blockbuster Cabernet.

Food
Rack of Karoo lamb and pan-wilted garden fresh spinach.

Music Room Awards:

  • Platter Wine Guide 2022: (92)
  • Michelangelo Int Wine Awards 2019
  • SA Sommeliers Selection 2019
  • Tim Atkin SA Report 2019
  • Old Mutual Trophy Wine Show 2019
  • Platter Wine Guide 2019
  • Veritas Wine Awards 2018
  • Michelangelo International Wine Awards 2018
  • International Wine & Spirit Competition 2018
  • Veritas Wine Awards 2018
  • International Wine Challenge Tranche 2 1018
  • Decanter World Wine Awards 2018
  • SAWI multiyear status – track over 5 years – 2018
  • Top 100 Wine Challenge 2018
  • Platter Wine Guide 2018
  • Veritas Wine Awards 2017