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Mike Ratcliffe sold his shares in Warwick Estate to focus on Vilafonté, a joint venture with winemaker Philip Freese and Zelma Long. Given both of them hail from the United States, Vilafonté has always been imbued with a Californian air, though its vines call Paarl their home, not Napa. I visited Mike at their winery on the outskirts of Stellenbosch. “The 2018 could be the greatest vintage we have ever produced,” he explains, although I will not taste those until next year. “It has been off the charts in terms of extract and concentration. Last four or five vintages have been strong. The last couple of years we have managed the vineyards well and we built a dam to counter the drought.” I discover that around 40% of their demand is for older vintages and so with this in mind, Mike kindly offers a complete vertical of the “Series M” cuvée that you can find in this report alongside recent releases. Suffice to say that these will appeal to those who like Californian Merlot, often opulent in style, but with the structure to support it. These wines do benefit from cellaring and as such, give them six or seven years in bottle and you end up with wine that develops rewarding secondary scents and flavours.
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