Rooiberg Merlot Reserve 2003

Michelangelo Awards 2005 - Silver Medal
This Flagship wine of our Reserve Selection was matured in French Oak for 18 months and is an elegant, full-bodied red wine with a luminous color of deep glowing garnet. It reveals floral and cherry flavors with a succulent palate of raspberry whiffs.

variety : Merlot [ 100% Merlot ]

winery : Rooiberg Winery

winemaker : Eduard Malherbe

wine of origin : Robertson

analysis : alc : 13.94 % vol rs : 3.3 g/l pH : 3.33 ta : 6.6 g/l

type : Red style : Dry wooded

pack : Bottle

AWARDS

Michelangelo Awards 2005 - Silver Medal

about the harvest: Harvested from a single vineyard.

in the cellar : Grapes was de-stemmed and crushed into rototanks. Fermented until dry, malolactic fermentation, and after that went into new French oak barrels for eighteen months of wood ageing.
Bottled: December 2004

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