Named after Vulpes cana – Blanford’s fox. Blanford’s fox is native to the Middle East, including Iran, Israel, Afghanistan, Egypt, and Pakistan.
The Cana 2024 is a stand-out vintage, benefiting from extra hang time and no rain pressure, resulting in perfect phenolic ripeness: achieved early due to the organic farming of the ±25-year-old Reyneke vines. The aim was to make a Cabernet that is not heavy or lingering, and Nuschka nailed it.
Tasting Notes: Intense floral notes (wilted rose, violets), cassis, olive, and mint with firm, non-astringent tannins. Matured in old oak, it offers deep fruit, fresh acidity, and a long, dry finish.
Nuschka de Vos sources her Cabernet Sauvignon from the Reyneke farm in the Polkadraai Hills, where she used to work. A step up from the 2023 release, it's fresh and herbal, with some granite-derived minerality and structure, flavours of cassis, paprika and dried herbs and a firm, acid-driven finish. 2026-32. Tim Atkin 92
Grapes from the biodynamic Polkadraai property that is home to Reyneke Wines, the vineyard not classified as organic as it’s affected by spray drift from neighbours. Matured in old oak. Intensely floral top notes – wilted rose and violets – before cassis, olive, a flash of mint, and earth. Excellent depth of fruit, fresh acidity and firm but not astringent tannins, the finish long and dry. That much better realised than 2023 CE’s rating: 94/100.
