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Restless River – 2015–2020 Main Road & Dignity Cabernet Sauvignon Vertical Producer: Restless River Wine: Main Road & Dignity Cabernet Sauvignon Vintages: 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019 & 2020 Region: Hemel-en-Aarde, South Africa Appellation: Upper Hemel-en-Aarde Quantity: 6 bottles × 75 cl - 1 × 2015 Main Road & Dignity Cabernet Sauvignon - 1 × 2016 Main Road & Dignity Cabernet Sauvignon - 1 × 2017 Main Road & Dignity Cabernet Sauvignon - 1 × 2018 Main Road & Dignity Cabernet Sauvignon - 1 × 2019 Main Road & Dignity Cabernet Sauvignon - 1 × 2020 Main Road & Dignity Cabernet Sauvignon A truly exceptional opportunity to acquire a complete six-vintage vertical of Restless River Main Road & Dignity Cabernet Sauvignon from 2015 through 2020. This remarkable collection showcases six consecutive vintages of one of South Africa's most distinctive and highly regarded Cabernet Sauvignons, offering collectors a unique opportunity to follow the evolution of both the wine and the vintage conditions over six years. Restless River, founded and run by Craig and Anne Wessels, is based in the Upper Hemel-en-Aarde, a cool-climate region particularly renowned for producing elegant, structured wines. Main Road & Dignity takes its name from the two vineyard blocks that provide the fruit for this exceptional Cabernet Sauvignon. The wine is a rare example of single-vineyard-style Cabernet Sauvignon from Hemel-en-Aarde, where the cool maritime climate allows the variety to retain freshness, perfume, and fine tannin while developing remarkable concentration. The 2015 vintage is a particularly celebrated expression, showing cool-climate purity, blackcurrant, herbs, cedar, fine tannins, and a savoury mineral finish. It received 95 points from Tim Atkin MW, who described it as fresh, savoury, herbal, structured, and densely textured. The 2016 vintage comes from a small and warm vintage that produced highly concentrated fruit. It offers dark berry character, density, and refined tannins, while retaining the freshness that defines Restless River's style. The 2017 vintage represents another fascinating interpretation, with the dry conditions and naturally low yields resulting in considerable concentration. The wine combines dark fruit with structure, freshness, and a savoury finish, and has received particularly strong recognition from critics. The 2018 vintage is widely regarded as one of the highlights of the vertical. It displays a particularly expressive perfume of rose petals, mulberry and plum, followed by a firm, structured palate with considerable ageing potential. Recent tasting notes show that the wine is beginning to enter an attractive drinking phase while still possessing significant potential for further development. The 2019 vintage is a markedly structured and concentrated expression, reflecting a long, cool growing season. It shows dense fruit, pronounced acidity and tannin, and a particularly classical, almost claret-like structure. This is a wine that rewards patience. The 2020 vintage completes the vertical with a beautifully focused and fresh expression. It shows black fruit, loam, cedar, mint, tobacco and citrus-driven freshness, with fine tannins and a long, savoury finish. The wine possesses excellent ageing potential and demonstrates how distinctive the Main Road & Dignity site can be even in a younger vintage. Taken together, these six wines provide a fascinating vintage study of Upper Hemel-en-Aarde Cabernet Sauvignon, demonstrating how differences in growing season, rainfall, temperature, yield and harvest timing influence the finished wine. It is precisely this vintage transparency that makes a vertical such as this so compelling for serious collectors. The bottles have been carefully stored under professional cellar conditions to preserve their quality and provenance. Label, capsule, and fill level are in excellent condition, as shown in the photographs. Collector's note: A six-vintage vertical of Restless River Main Road & Dignity is a particularly rare and desirable collection. The wine has developed a strong following among collectors and critics for its combination of cool-climate Cabernet character, freshness, structure and restrained use of oak. The opportunity to taste 2015 through 2020 side by side provides a unique insight into the evolution of this exceptional wine and the influence of vintage. Shipping Information: Shipping is available within Europe only. Unfortunately, I do not ship outside Europe. All bottles are professionally packed using high-quality wine shipping materials to ensure maximum protection during transit. Shipments are sent primarily with DHL and are fully insured at no additional cost. In exceptional cases, another reputable courier may be used depending on the destination. Tracking information will be provided as soon as your parcel has been dispatched. An exceptional opportunity to acquire a complete six-vintage vertical of Restless River Main Road & Dignity Cabernet Sauvignon, spanning the outstanding 2015–2020 vintages. For collectors of fine South African wine, this is a fascinating and highly distinctive collection that showcases one of the country's most compelling interpretations of Cabernet Sauvignon.

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