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“Having a home is pretty damn important,” quipped Duncan Savage as we sit down at his new winery facility in the Salt River area of Cape Town. It is clear that Duncan is elated to have finally moved here. Savage portfolio has duly expanded with a range of quite stunning, ingeniously titled wines. “The 2017 was the first vintage I made Savage in its own winery. The opportunity to have our own place came along. We bought everything second hand but there is a no compromise in attitude. We bought a peristaltic pump to do two aerations a day and reduce the heaviness and allow the wines to show well in their youth. We have a cold room. We can sort. We can age stuff longer on skins. We did a month for the Cinsault this year. We used to bottle the Red after a year and now it is two years with the second in foudres. It is a question of securing all the vineyard sources. We can buy fruit where we want to, so there are a lot of wines [from different growers] coming out of the same vineyard. But we want to find individuality in the wine. Now the drive is towards regionality and keeping the same sources, so that’s why we have seven wines. In the future we will be moving towards using more foudres.” I was a bit blown away by this range from Duncan. He is achieving his dream of zoning in on choice parcels of old vine from areas such as Piekenierskloof and Malgas. So you end up with a gallimaufry of grape varieties in some blends, yet nurtured beautifully by Duncan to create some thrilling, quite cerebral but delicious wines.

From Some Great Reward: South Africa (Aug 2018) by Neal Martin

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2017 Are We There Yet

Release Price: $49

Color: Red

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