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Cape View Merlot 1999

Ruby red of medium depth. Smooth and supple with a nice range of currant, herb and spicy Merlot flavours. Soft, fruity and appealing.

Serve with Veal piccata, Spicy meatballs, Pork Schnitzel, Greek lamb with rosemary.
variety : Merlot [ 100% Merlot ]
winemaker : Danie Steytler
wine of origin : 
analysis : alc : 13.53 % vol  rs : 1.6 g/l  pH : 3.79  ta : 5.3 g/l  
type : Red   wooded
pack : Bottle  

ageing : Drinks well now but has intensity for short-term cellaring.
in the vineyard : Soil: Clovelly type, weathered granite topsoil on a layer of granite, above a crumbly clay sub soil.
Yield: 8 ton/hectare
Grape varieties: 100% Merlot (12 year old trellised vines on R 110 rootstock)
about the harvest: Grapes harvested at 24 - 25º Balling.
in the cellar : Fermented dry on the skins with the aid of NT 112 yeast. The wine was gently oaked for 3 months in small French oak barrels.
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