1984 Meerlust Cabernet Sauvignon

Community Tasting Notes (6) Avg Score: 90.8 points

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  5/7/2015 - ken-yyz Likes this wine: 94 Points

  Stunning. Perfect maturity with a silky smooth texture. Best bottle of the case.

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  12/6/2009 - ken-yyz wrote: 92 Points

  One of the better bottles from the case. Tasted much younger than its 25 years with a core of great cassis fruit. Smokey nose reminiscent of a great mature bordeaux. Perfect match to a Cumbrae's NY strip dry aged steak.

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  7/1/2008 - ken-yyz wrote: 92 Points

  Fantastic (again). It needs about an hour of air to really blossom. The nose initially showed some stewed, stale fruits but after 30-40 minutes, that blew off leaving a smoky, earthy, casiss delight. Long, sweet fruit. Yummm.

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  6/22/2008 - ken-yyz wrote: 92 Points

  Ruby red with just a hint of orange at the edge. Smoke, leather and even some bacon on the nose but where's the fruit? Clearly this is well in to secondary nuances but what about the palate. High toned cassis with some earthy notes to start. Over a couple of hours, this put on more weight and becomes concentrated liquor of cassis with a dollop of raspberry - exceptional fruit density and amazing length.
  
  I bought a case of this at auction for $30CDN a bottle and it's one of the best values in my cellar, drinking as well as wines 5X it's price. There's enough fine tannin and acidic backbone that I'm sure this will continue to evolve, or at least hold for another 5-10 years.

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  11/14/2007 - ken-yyz wrote: 90 Points

  Bought recently at auction in "original cardboard case". The bottle could not have been in better condition. Perfect label. Perfect capsule. The cork was dark stained with wine up aprox 60% of the length.
  
  The colour showed definite signs of early maturity with slight browning at the edge but the core was deep dark red. On the nose, cedar intermixes with cassis and some smoke. Medium bodied (on the lighter side). Over 4 hours, the wine put on weight and grew even more interesting with lots of red fruit some hints of caramel and astonishingly bright acidity and still present tannin.
  
  I could easily see this a) holding its on against classified growth Bordeaux in a blind tasting and b) improving for another 5-10 years.
  
  This wasn't a profound, life changing bottle but it was by far the best $30 bottle of wine I've had in a long time.
  
  Interesting commentary. This was produced in the darkest depths of Apartheid when there were no South African exports so I'm curious about the history of the wine. It was obviously personally brought from SA to Canada as there are no import labels. In fact, the labeling laws didn't require listing of alcohol percentage - there's no mention.

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