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Huntington Beach, CA est.1993
$19.99
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4 ½ Stars 2021 Platter’s South African Wine Guide
Classic 5-part Bordeaux blend, with merlot, cab, cab franc leading the pack, now mostly from own vines. Plums & smoky spice, lead pencils, 17 (90 pts) ticks all the boxes, even some beef extract. Body is smooth, streamlined, luscious, in perfect drinking mode after 18 months French oak.
Mulderbosch Faithful Hound celebrates the virtues of Bordeaux’s great tradition of blending. Aside from investing considerable effort in our own vineyards in close proximity to False Bay, our quest to find the perfect sites for each of the five varieties used in the blend led us from the cooler sites to the rich, shale soils of Bottelary. The goal with each bottling of Faithful Hound is to produce a rich, complex wine that comfortably expresses old world class and the generosity of fruit associated with the Cape.
The wine has a deep, brooding color with a dark core and a deep mahogany rim. The first nose greets with ripe brambles, touches of cassis and subtle oak-spice. It is generous and inviting, but theres also a subtle nod to classic restraint in aromas of leafy tobacco and freshly turned earth. With each sip, richly textured flavors of Christmas pudding and ripe plums course the palate. Offset by sweetly infused Jamon-Iberico notes this is a layered and complex wine, unveiling successive waves of flavor as it evolves.
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