KWV Roodeberg 1972
By Christian Eedes, 5 March 2024
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What went into Roodeberg in the 1970s? Older editions of Platter’s note that the wine “usually contain[ed] Pinotage and Tinta Barocca and Shiraz… also featured”.
A 1974 tasted in May 2022 was outstanding, a three-bottle lot going for R17,558 (equivalent to R5,863 a bottle) on a Strauss & Co auction later that year. A 1972 drunk recently was again something rather special, tasting notes as follows:
Complex aromatics of cranberry and cassis but also more developed notes of prune, earth, malt and nuttiness. The palate is rich and deeply flavoured, the tannins mellow but not entirely soft. A wine with a comforting weight about it – at full maturity but maintaining very satisfactorily.
CE’s rating: 95/100.
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Greg Sherwood | 6 March 2024
Drank these on tap in the 1980s…(well, I tasted then but my parents drank them!) through the diplomatic service supply chain. Incredible wines. Roodeberg Red was the go to and Roodeberg Chenin Blanc the standard “entertaining” aperitif white. Crazy that such a legacy can be won and lost within a generation.