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Bovlei Merlot Reserve 2004

This Reserve Merlot typifies this terrior of it’s origin. Rich in layers of ripe cherry fruit, cigar box and strong wood nuances to form a balanced mouhtfeel soft in texture and after finish.

This is a fruit driven well balanced mouthfeel wine that can compliment an array of red meat dishes. As it has a lot of texture, it can compliment fine grained meat.
variety : Merlot [ 100% Merlot ]
winery : 
winemaker : Frank Meaker / Hendrik de Villiers
wine of origin : 
analysis : alc : 13.5 % vol  rs : 2.2 g/l  pH : 3.45  ta : 5.60 g/l  
type : Red   wooded

ageing : As the wine is strongly fruitdriven with oak roundness it is still not fully intergrated, with time 2 – 3 years fo bottle maturation should optimize this wines potential.
in the vineyard : A long, cool growing season with low yields during the harvesting season ensured fruit with excellent cultivar character rendering a full wine with soft tannins and tipical Merlot flavours.

The Merlot grapes came from the lower slopes of the Haweka Mountains yielded 8 – 9 tons per hectares and was produced from three wire Perold Trellising with drip irragation on shallow Oakleaf soiles. Only the best grapes from that vineyard were selected.
about the harvest: The grapes were handpicked early in morning at 24.7º balling when physiological ripeness were reached.
in the cellar : The grapes were crushed, destemmed and fermented on the skins for 11 days at 26ºballing. After malolatic fermentation the wine was aged in new French Oak barrels for 14 months after which it were bottled on Bovlei premises by a Mobile Bottling company.
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