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Crystallum Mabalel

Crystallum Mabalel

A fabled red with hints of soy and liquorice
Crystallum Mabalel
75 cl.
2024
93 Parker
94 Suckling
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Details
13.50%
Alcohol 13.50%
Western Cape South Coast
Production area Western Cape South Coast
Overberg
Designation of Origin Overberg
Crystallum
Winery Crystallum
Contains sulphites
100% Pinot Noir
Varieties 100% Pinot Noir
16.0
Service 16.0
75 cl.
Volume 75 cl.

Tasting notes Crystallum Mabalel 2024

Red wine Aged in wood Respectful agriculture. 12 months in French oak barrels used.

Style Crystallum Mabalel
Fruity
Spicy
Young
Barrel
Light
Body
Pairing
White meats, Red meat

About Crystallum Mabalel

She was the daughter of a South African chieftain. Her name was Mabalel and she was ambushed by the Lalele crocodile when she went to fetch water from the Limpopo River (which flows from the north of South Africa and into the Indian Ocean).

This is the story told by South African poet and writer Eugène Marais in one of this poems. And this story is where brothers Anadrew and Peter-Allan Finlayson got their inspiration for the name of their Crystallum Mabalel wine, a red made in the Walker Bay area, in southwestern South Africa.

There are many similarities. Crystallum Mabalel starts life in a vineyard lying 700 metres above sea level planted on the Kaaimansgat estate, which means the ‘crocodile’s lair.’ This area also has a river passing through, surrounded by mountains that are covered with snow in the winter. Just like in Marais’ poem. These grapes are manually harvested, following a philosophy of minimal intervention.

In the winery, Crystallum Mabalel is fermented with native yeasts and spends almost a month in storage, with a post-fermentation maceration of 14 days. From there, it goes on to age in French oak barrels, where it spends 11 months before being bottled.

In the year 2000 Philip Kaufman directed ‘Quills’, a film starring Geoffrey Rush and Kate Winslet, about the time the Marquis de Sade spent in the Charenton asylum. In a scene with both actors, Winslet - who plays the washerwoman Le Clerc - says: “Some stories belong on paper and others in life. Blessed fool who can’t tell the difference.” Sometimes the line is very fine, and it can become blurred. With Crystallum Mabalel it is blurred. Who knows if what Marais captured on paper could really happen...

2020

Crystallum Mabalel 2020 is a smooth red wine. The nose is very intense and concentrated, with notes of blueberry, orange peel, honeysuckle, nutmeg and sumac. The palate is complex and seductive, with cherry, dates and clove, fennel and caraway. Fresh tannins.
2019

Crystallum Mabalel 2019 is a smooth Pinot Noir wine, where notes of sour cherry, plum, blackcurrant and dark chocolate stand out. On the palate it is fresh and vigorous, where acidity and mature tannins contrast with sweet spices, soy and liquorice.
2024
93 Parker
94 Suckling
2023
95 Parker
94 Suckling

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  • We send it to Portugal with CTT Express to your home
  • The shipment for 12 bottles is €8.50 with CTT Express.
  • For orders over €150 shipping is free with CTT Express.