Rustenberg Red Muscadel Half Bottle 2019

Rustenberg Red Muscadel, Western Cape, South Africa, Half Bottle, 2019 

Grape: Muscadel (226.4g/l residual sugar)

Rustenberg’s Red Muscadel has been made using a centuries-old process of fortifying grape juice in order to produce a dessert-style wine. Grapes are harvested at high sugar levels, gently pressed and the juice fortified with neutral grape and twice-distilled brandy spirit. This addition preserves the natural flavours of the juice while ensuring that no fermentation can take place in the wine, also preserving the natural sugar from the grape juice.

Upfront scents of Turkish delight, musk, spice and ripe red fruits follow through to a lush opulent palate balancing the wine`s fruit, sweetness and acidity. This very stable sweet wine has the ability to be aged further under ideal cellaring conditions and it will become richer and more concentrated over time.

Critics' Tasting Notes:

"Rose water and blood orange, ginger and watermelon nose with soft red berries. Seamless palate with long spicy finish."

92/100 points (Silver Medal), Decanter World Wine Awards, 2020

"Rich, bold and very sweet with nice flavours of raisins and spice and a hint of treacle."

Silver Medal, International Wine Challenge, 2020