Mooiplaas Merlot 2006

Name: Mooiplaas Merlot 2006
Brand: Mooiplaas
SKU: 18789

Good colour, nose and interesting mix between roasted oak and cherry/cassis fruit, well structured, quite a finish for Merlot, shows well developed complexity from long barrel maturation, should develop well with some bottle age.

variety : Merlot [ 91% Merlot, 9% Cabernet Sauvignon ]

winery : Mooiplaas Estate

winemaker : Louis Roos

wine of origin : Stellenbosch

analysis : alc : 14.38 % vol rs : 1.6 g/l pH : 3.77 ta : 5.3 g/l so2 : 77 mg/l fso2 : 32 mg/l

type : Red style : Dry wooded

pack : Bottle closure : Cork

in the vineyard : Vineyard: Grapes from 2 adjacent blocks: Dassievak and Draairy, 250 m above sea level on a western facing slope.
Age of vines: 7 and 8 years respectively.
Clone Types: MO12 and MO343A respectively.
Rootstocks: Richter 110
Training method: 3-Wire vertical trellis

about the harvest: Harvest date: 13 March 2006
Average yield: 4.2 ton/ha and 13.6 ton/ha respectively.
Grape analysis: 26.2° Balling; pH 3.45; TA: 5.4 g/litre

in the cellar : Fermentation method: 9 days on the skins in closed stainless steel tank, at temperature of 20° - 25° C, mixed by pumping over.
Yeast type: NT50
Maturation: 17 Months in small barrels, egg white fining after emptying barrels.
Details of barrels: 300 litre barrels; 83% 2nd fill, 17% 3rd fill; 100% French oak
Bottling: 4 September 2008 on the estate.

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