Strange Bru Red, 2018

Ruby Cabernet is the child of industry, a blue-collar cultivar hybridized from Carignan and Cabernet Sauvignon at California's UC Davis, to give a drought-resistant variety of color for the dry Central Valleys. An immediate ping on South Africa's co-operative radar, therefore, where for thirty years or more it has been farmed somewhat obsessively for color and structure. Well sometimes even the village idiot makes it to the University and in 2018 this long-established block shone above all others and we choose to bottle a small volume on it's own. Un-oaked, untrammeled and unedited this is the backing singer of many a blend but solo.