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2002 Rustenberg Wines John X Merriman Stellenbosch
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2002 Rustenberg Wines John X Merriman Stellenbosch

Producer: Rustenberg Wines
Style: Red Wine
Grape Type: Bordeaux Blend
Origin: South Africa
Region: South Africa

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88 Points | International Wine Cellar , March/April 2005

Sweet but more oak-dominated aromas of currant, licorice, tar and chocolate. Sweet, jammy, merlot-dominated flavors of plum and chocolate. This is ripe and in your face, while the 2001 is more complex and multilayered. (According to Badenhorst, February had three times more rain than the norm for this month.) Finishes with dusty, fine tannins.

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South Africa has produced wines in the area of Cape Town since the 17th century, but the country's significant place in the U.S. market is far more recent. During the era of apartheid, trade sanctions imposed on imports from South Africa kept these wines out of the U.S. and many other markets, with the effect that local South African winemakers had little incentive to produce wines that could compete in a global setting...
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