Kleine Zalze Cellar Selection Pinotage 2005

The wine shows a deep red colour with intense earthy mulberry plum flavours. The 50% Pinotage aged in French oak barrels adds a good, soft complexity with well integrated firm oaky tannins.

This wine can be enjoyed with any roasts, not too spicy, curries and stews. Game like springbok and ostrich are well complimented.

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variety : Pinotage [ Pinotage ]

winery : Kleine Zalze Wines

winemaker : Johan Joubert

wine of origin : Stellenbosch

analysis : alc : 13.5 % vol rs : 2.3 g/l pH : 3.28 ta : 6.3 g/l

type : Red wooded

pack : Bottle closure : Cork

in the vineyard : The blocks were harvested between 24 and 25Âº Balling with optimum ripeness to bring out only the soft, ripe tannins of Pinotage grapes. The crop varies between 6 â€“ 9 tons per hectare from bush vine and trellised grapes.

about the harvest: The grapes were harvested from 3 different blocks in Stellenbosch. The grapes were separately harvested and left for a 3-6 days cold maceration period in the tanks.

in the cellar : After inoculated with WE 372 and BM45 yeast the juice was regularly pumped over for colour and soft phenol extraction. Fermenting dry, 50% of the blend went through malolactic fermentation in the barrel and 50% in stainless steel tanks.

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