Named after Sybrand’s granddaughter, Isliedh best reflects the uniqueness of our Noordhoek Estate: Here a special block of severely windswept vines yield tiny crops of concentrated and well structured Sauvignon Blanc.
To add texture, the wine is blended with our Semillon, barrel fermented in 50% new and 50% 2nd fill French Oak, and then aged on lees for 10 months. Once bottled, the wine is allowed to mature for a year, ensuring that customers gain “a glimpse of what is yet to come”.
This wine displays fantastic mineral tension backed by flavours of tropical fruit, limes, spice and subtle oak which follow onto a full palate with great length. The wine drinks fantastically well on release but will develop further over a 5-10 year period.
Vintage Notes and Awards
Cape Point Vineyards Isliedh 2011
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Cape Point Vineyards Isliedh 2010
Platter Description: ★★★★1/2
One of Cape Point Vineyards consistently highly rated white blends. 10 is a sauvignon (75%), semillon mix. A clean flintiness adds tension to subtly oaked nectarine & lime flavours. Delicious, with good complexity & length, as in brilliant. 09
A Top 100 South African Wine – Top 100 South African Wine Awards (2011) Double Gold – Five Nations Challenge (2011)
Rated 5 Stars – Decanter Magazine (2011)
Gold – Decanter World Wine Awards (2011)
93 Point Score – Neal Maartin, Wine Advocate (2011) (Highest rated Sauvignon driven wine) (2011)
SAWI Icon award (2011)
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Cape Point Vineyards Isliedh 2009
Platter Description: ★★★★★
Elegantly couture blend of Sauvignon Blanc (85%) and Semillon; rich, zesty and focused. Green fig, passion- and stone fruit perfectly in harmony with oak (50% each new, 2nd fill; fermented in barrel) Seamless and sleek.
Gold Medal – Decanter World Wine Awards 2010
5 Star rated by The Platter’s SA Wine Guide for 2011
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Cape Point Vineyards Isliedh 2008
Platter Description: ★★★★★
Monumental and cellarworthy Bordeaux-style white. Rich but pure & lifted tropical fruit & mineral intensity give real excitement to dense, finite palate. Fermentation: 11 months; 33% new oak.
5 Star rated by The Platter’s SA Wine Guide for 2010
Regional Trophy – South African White Blend – Decanter World Wine Awards 2010
International Trophy – White Blend– Decanter World Wine Awards 2010
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Cape Point Vineyards Isliedh 2007
Platter Description: ★★★★★
Exceptional cool-climate Bordeaux-style Sauvignon Blanc/Semillon blend. Forward-fruited 07 radiates soy, smoke and exotic spice. Tight in youth, but powerful and generous, lingering intensity. Fermentation: 11 months; 70% new oak. Savour for 5+ years.
5 Star rated by The Platter’s SA Wine Guide for 2009
Decanter Magazine 5 star rated, by Tim Atkin (December 2009)
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Cape Point Vineyards Isliedh 2006
Platter Description: ★★★★★
One of the few exceptional cool-climate Bordeaux-style whites in the Cape. The 06 echoes the 05, though bigger, more powerful; similar potential. Semillon (22%) supplies a rich aroma, structure; the triumph in all three CPV whites is in the resonating length. Barrel fermented, 70% new, 10 months.
5 Star rated by The Platter’s SA Wine Guide for 2008
Trophy Winner – Best White Blend (Museum Class) – Old Mutual Trophy Wine Show 2010
Rated 92 points by Wine Spectator 2008
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Cape Point Vineyards Isliedh 2005
Platter Description: ★★★★★
Sauvignon/Semillon (85/15) fusion, has gorgeous plumage from start. Exemplifies power with cool-climate subtlety; deeply flavoursome, steely nucleus holds full richness. Excellent potential. Fermented: 10 months French Oak, 70% new.
SA Champion White Wine Blend (SBW Trophy) SA Young Wine Show 2005
Trophy Winner – Best Wooded White Blend – Old Mutual Trophy Wine Show 2006
Trophy Winner – Best White Wine – Old Mutual Trophy Wine Show 2006
5 Star rated by The Platter’s SA Wine Guide for 2007
Voted “Best White Wine on Show” WineX Cape Town 2006
Gold Medal – Decanter World Wine Awards 2008
Rated 91 points by Wine Spectator 2007
Gold Medal – (Museum Class) – Old Mutual Trophy Wine Show 2010
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Cape Point Vineyards Isliedh 2004
Platter Description: ★★★1/2
Sauvignon Blanc fermented in mature French oak (30% new) for 8 months. Powerful though mid-2005 rather somber; oak curbs characteristic bright mineral/fig attractions.
★★★★1/2 by Wine magazine.
Gold Medal – Veritas Wine Awards 2005
Trophy Winner – Best Sauvignon Blanc – Old Mutual Trophy Wine Show 2006
Best in its Class International Wine & Spirit Competition London 2006
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Cape Point Vineyards Isliedh 2003
Platter Description: min ★★★1/2
Sauvignon Blanc, 75% barrel fermented/ matured in older French Oak. Unfinished sample firmly built, dry, will need beyond early 2005 release to open.
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Technical Analysis
Grapes for this wine are picked on the picturesque south facing Noordhoek slopes from the Peninsulas’ southern most vineyards. The grapes were harvested between 23°B and 25°B in the early hours of the morning and were all hand-picked.
VINEYARD
- Trellis: Vertical trellis
- Planting Density: 3200 vines/ha
- Soil: Decomposed granite
- Irrigation: Drip
- Yield: 3 tons/ha
CELLAR
- Skin Contact: none
- Settling: 8 hours
- Yeast: Inoculated and spontaneous ferment
- Fermentation: 90% barrel fermented in French oak, (30% new) and 10% Amphora
- Fermentation Temperature: 18°C
- Lees Ageing: 14 months on gross lees
- Barrel Ageing: 14 months with regular batonage
BLEND: 85% Sauvignon Blanc, 15% Semillon
WINEMAKER: Duncan Savage
WINE DISTRICT: Cape Point
ANALYSIS:
- Alcohol = 13.6%/Vol
- RS = 3g/l
- pH = 3.1
- TA = 7.7 g/l
- FSO2= 31mg/l
- TSO2= 115mg/l
WINEMAKER’S NOTES:
Isliedh is created in a tight mineral style for enjoyment with great food which will reward for many years to come. The wine displays a complex array of limes, minerality, tropical fruit and spice which will be accompanied by secondary flavours over time. The ’09 can be best enjoyed from mid-2011 over the next 5 years and possibly even 10.
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