Bovlei Pinotage 2004

The wine was made in rotor tanks and turned regularly. This led to excellent colour extraction and rich stylistic cultivar flavour. The wine has upfront sweet berry/banana spicy vanilla flavours with a good colour and a balace complex aftertaste.

Serve with roast or turkey or any traditional red meat.

variety : Pinotage [ 100% Pinotage ]

winery : Bovlei Cellar (Wellington Wines)

winemaker : Frank Meaker / Hendrik de Villiers

wine of origin : Wellington

analysis : alc : 12.71 % vol rs : 2.0 g/l pH : 3.76 ta : 5.0 g/l

type : Red style : Dry body : Medium wooded

pack : Bottle

AWARDS

WINE Magazine Best Value Wine 2006

ageing : Ready to drink, but with the intense cultivar flavour on nose and plate, it can be kept for another four years.

in the vineyard : With a slow long ripening period, the grapes were picked late (March) in the ripening period. This led to good cultivar flavours and a berry with a thicker skin.
The grapes are from the bushvine blocks with a yield of 8 ton per hectare. The soil is in the higher slopes of Bovlei at the foot of the Hawekwa Mountains.

about the harvest: The grapes were picked at 23.7Â° Balling when the grapes reached itâ€™s physiological ripeness with coloured pits and soft grape tannis.

in the cellar : The grapes were crushed, destemmed and fermented on the skins for 8 days at 23 - 26Â°C.

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