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in the news » Webersburg's classic cabernets
published on: 01 September 2010      source: Melvyn Minaar
 
Elegance and classy restraint in its wines mirror one of the finest Cape-Dutch restoration projects.
Turn off the Annadale road, in the Helderberg area, into the yard of Webersburg, and you cannot but be impressed by the effort that the Webers have put into the restoration of this smart Cape-Dutch compound. A recent vertical tasting of the property's cabernet sauvignons confirms the wines to be a match in style.

Fred Weber, his wife Annelize and daughter Monique, who runs the guess facilities, have polished the historic buildings to perfection, with a stylish sense of understatement. The real architecture of the late 18th century have, in a manner of speaking, just been cleaned-up, lovingly restored, sensibly fixed up for comfortable modern living. (It's a five-star guest house.)

The same lack of extravagance underpins the graceful wines that Fred Weber, who established his foothold here in the mid-1990s, offers under his name. He doesn't aspire to more than the eight hectares he currently owns, delivers, and the sauvignon blanc that joined, a while back, the club of two red bottlings, is more a hospitality gesture than anything else. Red, expressing the Helderberg soils in cabernet sauvignon specifically, is what it is all about.

Both Webersburg wines - the one a 100 percent cabernet, the other Bordeaux-styled - were conceived to be classic, with moderation in flavours, texture and expression. Structured to age beautifully over some years. Needless to say, this reflects the philosophy of Giorgio Dalla Cia, who has been consulting since the first vintage in 1996. (The wines have all been made at the Meerlust cellar.)

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