Boekenhoutskloof Stellenbosch Cabernet Sauvignon 2022
Stellenbosch
South Africa, South Africa
Regular price£227.13
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| Style: Red | Packaging: OCC |
| ABV: 14.5% | Closure: Cork |
| Organic: No | Drink from: 2024 |
| Biodynamic: No | Drink to: 2035 |
| Grapes: 100% Cabernet Sauvignon | |
Critic scores
93 RP, 91 NM, 94 JS, 95 TA, 18.5 MJ
Critic reviews
"Here's an interesting side-by-side tasting of Cabernet Sauvignon from Stellenbosch versus Franschhoek. The wine I tasted first is the Boekenhoutskloof 2022 Stellenbosch Cabernet Sauvignon, aged in barrique for 18 months. Stellenbosch tends to have more vigor and naturally high pyrazines. Farming often involves open canopies, and Cabernet Sauvignon is picked two weeks earlier here compared to Franschhoek. The wines show immediate richness and complexity. No Cabernet Franc is added to this wine because Stellenbosch fruit is spicy on its own, so putting the two grapes together would be overkill. This wine has a tight vein of green herb and rosemary that contributes to a very vertical and intense presentation with a core of black and purple fruits. Vinification for the two Cabernet Sauvignons is basically the same."
Monica Larner, June 2025, RobertParker.com
"The 2022 Cabernet Sauvignon Stellenbosch is 100% destemmed and aged for 22 months in 60% new French oak. It has well-defined, more Bordeaux-like bouquet, with touches of pencil lead infusing the black fuit. It unfurls nicely in the glass. The palate is medium-bodied with fine tannins, a little oaky at the moment though that will be subsumed with time. Again, it’s quite Left Bank in style, with impressive tension and a slightly chalked-texture finish. As I usual I prefer this to the Franschhoek blend."
Neal Martin, August 2024, Vinous.com
"This is plush and delicious, showing notes of dark plums, dark chocolate, graphite, violets and some mocha. It’s full-bodied, polished and full of flavor, with ripe and fine-grained tannins. Classy, fresh and long finish. Drink or hold."
James Suckling, August 2024, JamesSuckling.com
"Gottfried Mocke's Stellenbosch Cabernet Sauvignon has more grip, muscle and minerality than the Franschhoek bottling, and comes from a Lower Helderberg site close to the Polkadraai Hills. Inky and well-structured, it has layers of blueberry and blackberry, a waft of graphite and dried herbs and deftly integrated 60% new oak. 2026-35"
Tim Atkin, January 2025, TimAtkin.com
Monica Larner, June 2025, RobertParker.com
"The 2022 Cabernet Sauvignon Stellenbosch is 100% destemmed and aged for 22 months in 60% new French oak. It has well-defined, more Bordeaux-like bouquet, with touches of pencil lead infusing the black fuit. It unfurls nicely in the glass. The palate is medium-bodied with fine tannins, a little oaky at the moment though that will be subsumed with time. Again, it’s quite Left Bank in style, with impressive tension and a slightly chalked-texture finish. As I usual I prefer this to the Franschhoek blend."
Neal Martin, August 2024, Vinous.com
"This is plush and delicious, showing notes of dark plums, dark chocolate, graphite, violets and some mocha. It’s full-bodied, polished and full of flavor, with ripe and fine-grained tannins. Classy, fresh and long finish. Drink or hold."
James Suckling, August 2024, JamesSuckling.com
"Gottfried Mocke's Stellenbosch Cabernet Sauvignon has more grip, muscle and minerality than the Franschhoek bottling, and comes from a Lower Helderberg site close to the Polkadraai Hills. Inky and well-structured, it has layers of blueberry and blackberry, a waft of graphite and dried herbs and deftly integrated 60% new oak. 2026-35"
Tim Atkin, January 2025, TimAtkin.com