Muratie Ansela van de Caab 2020

Muratie Ansela van de Caab is rich and velvety, this is a tightly knit wine built to last yet accessible now thanks to its well-rounded tannins Concentrated dark fruits (blackcurrants, cassis) are lifted by a slight tea leaf herbaceousness and plenty of wood spice (sandalwood, cigar box, graphite).

"When Laurens Campher first arrived at the Cape from his native Mohrow in Poland, he met and fell in love with a slave woman, Ansela van de Caab, who spent much of her early life captive in the Castle of Good Hope, Cape Town. To visit Ansela, Laurens would regularly travel the arduous 50 km between Stellenbosch and Cape Town by foot or ox wagon, as he didn’t own a horse. When Ansela was finally emancipated on 28 June 1695 and came to live with Laurens on the farm, they already had three young children. Their original homestead still stands on Muratie, as does the giant oak tree Laurens planted for Ansela. Our flagship Bordeaux-style red blend proudly bears her name."