Tasting Notes
Colour: Ruby with a translucent rim.
Nose: Fresh cinnamon, all-spice and tobacco leaf curl across a mix of black and red cherries.
Palate: Cabernet Sauvignon led, a component of Shiraz layers in spicy perfume and pine needle freshness. Hints of Cabernet Franc, Petit Verdot and Malbec add curves in all the right places with lashings of ink and cacao, red-peppers and tomato leaf. Utter harmony between medium-body and well-judged freshness acts as a springboard for the complexity of fruit and silky-smooth tannins.
Grape Varieties: 50% Cabernet Sauvignon, 30% Shiraz, 5% Merlot, 5% Cabernet Franc, 5% Petit Verdot and 5% Malbec
History of Ernie Els
Ernie Els is a winery located in the Stellenbosch region of the Western Cape, South Africa. It was founded by the world-class golfer Ernie Els in 2000, and is known for its robust, Bordeaux-styled red wines made from Merlot and Cabernet Sauvignon, particularly the Ernie Els Signature, a blend of the two.
The estate is located on the slopes of the Heiderberg Mountain, where north-facing vineyards benefit from optimum amounts of sunlight and cooling breezes from the Atlantic Ocean. This, combined with soils of clay and granite, is an excellent environment for red grape varieties, and the Ernie Els property is planted mostly to Cabernet Sauvignon, with Merlot, Cabernet Franc, Malbec, Petit Verdot, and Shiraz.
Website: https://ernieelswines.com/















