Sakkie Mouton Revenge of the Crayfish 2023
€49.50 inc BTW per case GS 97
Single Bottle In Stock
Sakkie MoutonWestern Cape, South Africa
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Sakkie Mouton is one of South Africa's most compelling boutique producers, making wines of genuine critical recognition and individual character in tiny quantities from Western Cape vineyards. The wine that has drawn the most sustained attention is Revenge of the Crayfish, a wine of extraordinary personality whose 98-point score from Greg Sherwood MW confirms what collectors who have discovered Sakkie Mouton already know: that this is a producer operating well above the level that the scale of production or the modesty of the estate's public profile might suggest.
Estate at a Glance
Sakkie Mouton is a boutique South African wine producer working with Western Cape vineyard sources. Production is very small and the wines are allocated rather than widely distributed. The principal wine is Revenge of the Crayfish, which received 98 points from Greg Sherwood MW in the 2023 vintage. The style is individual and precise, drawing on Western Cape terroir with a minimal-intervention philosophy.
Revenge of the Crayfish
The name alone establishes that Sakkie Mouton is not operating according to the conventions of South African fine wine branding, and the wine inside the bottle confirms that the unconventional positioning is entirely intentional. Revenge of the Crayfish is a wine of genuine depth and individual character, combining the natural freshness and mineral precision of cool Western Cape viticulture with a winemaking approach that prioritises transparency and honest terroir expression.
Greg Sherwood MW's 98-point recognition is not awarded to wines that are merely competent or regionally notable. Sherwood is one of the most authoritative and discerning voices on South African wine in the UK market, and a score of 98 reflects his assessment that Revenge of the Crayfish belongs among the finest wines that South African viticulture is currently producing. It places Sakkie Mouton in a category of producers whose wines demand serious collector attention regardless of scale.
Why Buy Sakkie Mouton?
Sakkie Mouton produces wines of a critical recognition and individual character that are disproportionate to the estate's small scale and modest public profile. Revenge of the Crayfish at 98 points from Greg Sherwood MW represents the kind of discovery that serious collectors value precisely because the broader market has not yet caught up with the quality.
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