La Cave Merlot 2003

A rich combination of berry and oak flavours. A soft structured oak barrel matured wine with mouth filling complexity.

variety : Merlot [ 100% Merlot ]

winery : Wellington Wines

winemaker : AndrÃ© Swanepoel

wine of origin : Coastal

analysis : alc : 15.0 % vol rs : 2.2 g/l pH : 3.5 ta : 5.3 g/l

type : Red style : Dry wooded

pack : Bottle

AWARDS

Veritas 2004 - Bronze

in the vineyard : The grapes came from a single vineyard with a yield of less than 10 tons per hectare.

about the harvest: Fruit was picked at optimum maturity.

in the cellar : Fermented dry on the skins at 26Â°C. Thereafter the free run portion went into new 225 litre oak barrels. Full malolactic fermentation was allowed in barrel. Then the wine was racked and after SO2 adjustments, it was returned to the same barrels (80% from French and 20% from American origin) for 12 months.

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