Accolades
Top 100 SA Wines - Double Gold
Tasting Notes
Appearance: Dark plum colour
Bouquet: A complex nose of spice, ripe berries and blackberries with slight forest floor earthy tones.
Palate: Mouth-filling fruit and elegant oak flavours, juicy tannins and lingering after taste.
Blend Information
53% Cabernet Sauvignon, 27% Merlot, 12% Cabernet Franc, 5% Petit Verdot, 3% Malbec
About The Harvest
All grapes were hand picked in small lug boxes.
All grapes were hand picked.
In The Cellar
All grapes were hand picked in small lug boxes pre cooled to 5°and sorted twice before a pure yeast culture was inoculated. The juice was pumped over the skins 3-5 times per day for 5 days. Once fermentation was complete, the wine was drained of the primary lees and transferred to a resting tank. Malolactic fermentation and a brief settling period preceded the wine to a combination of 225 litre barrels of French oak (25% first fill the rest second third and fourth fill.) The wine spent between 12 - 14 months in barrel before bottling and labelling.
Technical Analysis
Winemaker - Josef Dreyer
Main Variety - Cabernet Sauvignon
Alcohol - 14 %vol
pH - 3.61
RS - 2.2 g/l
Total Acid - 5.5 g/l
Appellation - Klein River
Characteristics
Type - Red
Style - Dry
Body - Full
Taste - Fruity
