2024 Sadie Family Swartland Treinspoor

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Claire Nesbitt - JamesSuckling.com

This spicy, brooding yet pure wine has aromas of licorice, violets, blackberries, cranberries, graphite and hints of fennel. It’s medium- to full-bodied, firm and focused, with fantastic spicy undertones. Lots of structure. Tight and firm finish. Tinta barroca from 50-year-old vines. Try after 2026.

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Monica Larner - Robert Parker Wine Advocate

The Sadie Family 2024 Swartland Die Distriksreeks Treinspoor delivers compact, crunchy tannins and dark, firm fruit within a structured, age-worthy frame. The wine highlights Tinta Barroca’s historic Swartland roots, showing both power and precision without heaviness. Sourced from vines planted in 1974 on alluvial soils with sandstone, granite and quartz components near Malmesbury, Treinspoor continues to champion this once-overlooked Portuguese variety in the Cape.