Bottle of the week: More than the sum of its parts

14 September 2016 - 10:32
By Neil Pendock

Muratie Melck's red 2014How much and where?R95; www.muratie.co.zaWhy?Muratie is the quintessential South African wine farm. It was started by a lady of colour, Ansela van de Caab, in the 17th century. Something at least one producer in our lily-white world of wine has not forgotten. But then Groot Constantia was founded by Simon van der Stel, whose mother was a dusky beauty with a son, Willem Adriaan, so dark, his nickname was Koffieboon (coffee bean).

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