Restless River Main Road & Dignity Cabernet Sauvignon
- Red
- South Africa
- Hemel-en-Aarde Valley
- Cabernet Sauvignon
- Tracked vintages
- 7
- Community notes
- 74
- Merchant offers
- 16
What we know about this wine
- Critics
- 94/ 1002021 vintage
- Real drinkers
- 88/ 10074 notes, every vintage
- Market price
- £49per 75 cl2020 · nearest vintage with a price · 6-bottle in-bond trade, December 2024
- Drinking window
- 2024–2035drinking2021 vintage
Flavour and structure
What drinkers taste in this wine across its vintages, and how it is built: body, acidity, tannin and sweetness on a five-point scale, with the number of ratings behind them.
Structure from 81 community ratings, read 2026-08-12. Style: South African Cabernet Sauvignon.
- Body4.3 / 5
- LightFull
- Acidity3.9 / 5
- SoftCrisp
- Tannin4.0 / 5
- SmoothGrippy
- Sweetness1.6 / 5
- DrySweet
- Black fruit · black fruit, cassis, blackberry, black cherry, blackcurrant
- Oak · oak, tobacco, cigar box, cedar, chocolate
- Earth · earthy, leather, smoke, pencil shavings, graphite
- Red fruit · cherry, red fruit, cranberry, red cherry, strawberry
- Spice · pepper, mint, eucalyptus, cinnamon, thyme
- Floral · violet, perfume, lavender
Grapes: Cabernet Sauvignon. Proportions are not recorded.
Descriptors are the words drinkers used most, grouped; counts are mentions. Tannin is shown only where it was measured.
Vintages
Each vintage has its own page with both scores, the drinking window and the merchant price range. The meter is the score on a 60-100 scale and its colour is where that vintage stands against its own drinking window. Prices are per 75cl, with the case size and month they were taken from.
- 202194criticunit not stated
- 202093critic£49 / 75cl6-bottle in-bond trade, December 2024
- 201990critic
- 201889drinkersunit not stated
- 201794critic£53 / 75cl6-bottle in-bond trade, February 2022
- 201691critic
- 201495drinkers
- Peakinside the middle half of its stated window
- Drinkinginside its stated window
- Window not recordedthe vintage carries no window, so the meter shows its score alone
- Best scored
- 2017
- 94 / 100 from a critic
- Drinking now
- 2017
- peak, window 2020–2035
- Lowest price
- 2020
- £49 per 75 cl
Price by vintage
One monthly median per vintage, divided by the case size it was quoted in, so the bars are the same unit. These are our own aggregates, not offers: nobody will sell you a median.
Solid: a realised in-bond trade
Where to go next
LWIN 1611708