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Bovlei Merlot Reserve 2003

This Reserve Merlot tipifies this terrior of its 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 ]
winemaker : Frank Meaker / Hendrik de Villiers
wine of origin : Wellington
analysis : alc : 14.39 % vol  rs : 2.3 g/l  pH : 3.57  ta : 6.0 g/l  
type : Red  style : Dry  body : Full   wooded
pack : Bottle  closure : Cork  
AWARDS
Veritas 2005 - Gold

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.
in the cellar : The grapes were handpicked early in morning at 24.7° Balling when physiological ripeness were reached. The grapes were crushed, destemmed and fermented on the skins for 11 days at 26° Balling. After malolatic fermentation the wine was aged in new French Oak barrels for 14 months after which it were bottled on Bovlei premices by a Mobile Bottling company.
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