Official bottle shot
In the 1990s this farm made Cordoba, a Cabernet Franc-led Bordeaux blend that became one of the country’s first icon wines. The label fell silent for years.
In 2017 the French Oddo family bought the estate, kept the old vines that had survived, and rebuilt a winery around them. With the Cordoba name unavailable, they renamed the farm Taaibosch, after the indigenous fynbos that grows across its slopes, and installed cellarmaster Schalk-Willem Joubert.
The grapes are farmed organically, high on the Helderberg with views over False Bay. The single wine, Crescendo, carries the same Cabernet Franc signature that made the original famous.
