Blaauwklippen Barouche Magnum 2009

This wine is the winning blend of the 2010 Blending Competition, submitted by the Engineers' Wine Society from Port Elizabeth. It is a spicy, well structured wine brimful of dark fruit and chocolate flavours with good integrated ripe tannins.

Curry and Bobotie dishes, rich stews, venison. Drinking temperature: 17° C

variety : Zinfandel [ 45% Zinfandel, 42% Shiraz, 7% Malbec, 6% Cabernet Sauvignon ]
winemaker : Rolf Zeitvogel
wine of origin : Stellenbosch
analysis : alc : 14 % vol  rs : 5.8 g/l  pH : 3.63  ta : 5.5 g/l  
type : Red  style : Dry  body : Full   wooded
pack : Bottle  size : 0  closure : Cork  

ageing : Enjoy immediately or within 5 - 10 years.

in the cellar : Fermentation: Spontaneous fermentation with natural yeast. Fermented for 2 weeks.
Cold soak: 2 days
Skin contact: 14 days after fermentation maceration.
Maturation: Matured in small oak barrels (45% new).

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