2021 Sadie Family Swartland Treinspoor
2021 Sadie Family Swartland Treinspoor

2021 Sadie Family Swartland Treinspoor

Highly Rated
Sadie Family Wines |Swartland |Tinta Barocca
Eben Sadie believes the Tinta Barocca grape is the best vehicle for transmitting terroir in Swartland. Try this dark and brooding version from him and see if he's right.
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$145.00
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Description

Eben Sadie believes Tinta Barocca to be "the greatest grape for the Swartland".

While he may very well be Robinson Crusoe on that opinion, it's hard to argue with the quality of his offering of the straight variety. This Portuguese native thrives in his hands.

It's dark, structural, exotically spiced and has a wonderful perfume of dark fruits and dried flowers.

It's a wine that unfurls beautifully with time in bottle. It's the wild child of the Sadie line up and one to keep an eye on for the future.

This vineyard, planted in 1974 and located next to the old railway line (treinspoor), lies four kilometres west of Malmesbury on decomposed granite and sandstone. Sadie notes that while the very fragile, thin skin of Tinta Barocca is prone to sunburn, the old bush vines of this site keep the bunches sheltered from the intense Swartland sun. He likens his Treinspoor to a sort of stylistic cross between Northern Rhône Syrah (black cherry/ blackcurrant/ grenadine fruit, iodine and nettles) and Piemontese Nebbiolo, (spice, florals, acidity, and tannins): "It has Piedmont-like tannins and Northern Rhône aromatics" says Eben. Regardless, as you can read below, it's an absolutely brilliant red. Fermented in concrete, with 50% whole bunches, and raised for 11 months in large cask, it is, like all Sadie wines, an outstanding, idiosyncratic red of great beauty, finesse and character.

Region: Swartland, South Africa
Blend: Tinta Barocca (100%)
ABV: 13.50%
Closure: 750ml
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95 Points - "I want to go even darker,” says Eben Sadie of this Tinta Barocca, which is a favoured red with the winemaking team. “People have had enough strawberry and raspberry.” This is inky, tarry and intense, with grippy tannins, layers of damson and black cherry, some steak tartare and a lift of spices from whole bunches." - Tim Atkin MW (South Africa Report 2022)

96 Points - “The 2021 Treinspoor is Sadie's Tinta Barocca that the man himself likens to Nebbiolo, also opining that it is a wine that needs considerable ageing. These vines were planted in 1974, and the blend includes 40% whole clusters. It has a complex, succinctly defined bouquet with melted tar and graphite infused dark berry fruit, a hint of Lapsang Souchong. The palate is medium-bodied with pliant tannins, perfectly-tuned acidity, almost Burgundian in texture yet with more pepperiness towards the finish. So elegant and harmonious - this is stunning from every angle you look at it.” - Neal Martin (Vinous.com)

95 Points - "Made from Tinto Barocca, the 2021 Old Vine Series Treinspoor is instantly impressive in the glass with a fresh frame of dark red fruits that sways with just-ripe plum and dark cherry skin essences. Medium to full-bodied, the palate is muscular with a gripping tannic edge that reveals devastating beauty and picturesque, spiced plum and dusty florals across the mid-palate. The wine loosens and uncoils as it sits in the mouth before ending with a fresh, fruited, slightly spicy finish that lingers with a tight graphite sensation." - Anthony Mueller (Robert Parker Wine Advocate)

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