Steenberg Nebbiolo 2022 is a cool-climate Constantia red that takes a famously structured Piedmont variety and gives it a distinctly Cape expression without losing its core identity. This is a wine built around perfume, savory detail, and tension rather than fruit weight alone, making it especially interesting for drinkers who appreciate reds with aromatic lift, firm shape, and long-term potential. It feels both unusual and well judged, with Constantia’s cooler conditions helping preserve the freshness that Nebbiolo needs.

The nose opens with tomato relish, rose petal, rooibos tea, and dried mushroom, giving the wine an immediately savory and expressive profile. On the palate, sour cherry, raspberry, and tobacco leaf carry through with bright tart acidity and fine-grained tannins, while a silken texture softens the variety’s naturally firmer edges. The finish is long, dry, and poised, making it especially well suited to springbok fillet, duck, braised meats, or aged cheeses where its acidity and savory character can settle naturally into the food.

Already compelling in its youth, this is a Nebbiolo with the structure and balance to age confidently over the next decade.

Steenberg Nebbiolo 2022 is a cool-climate Constantia red that takes a famously structured Piedmont variety and gives it a distinctly Cape expression without losing its core identity. This is a wine built around perfume, savory detail, and tension rather than fruit weight alone, making it especially interesting for drinkers who appreciate reds with aromatic lift, firm shape, and long-term potential. It feels both unusual and well judged, with Constantia’s cooler conditions helping preserve the freshness that Nebbiolo needs.

The nose opens with tomato relish, rose petal, rooibos tea, and dried mushroom, giving the wine an immediately savory and expressive profile. On the palate, sour cherry, raspberry, and tobacco leaf carry through with bright tart acidity and fine-grained tannins, while a silken texture softens the variety’s naturally firmer edges. The finish is long, dry, and poised, making it especially well suited to springbok fillet, duck, braised meats, or aged cheeses where its acidity and savory character can settle naturally into the food.

Already compelling in its youth, this is a Nebbiolo with the structure and balance to age confidently over the next decade.