Winemaker Bonny van Niekerk describes this as an easy drinking wine with a soft succulent fruitiness and a ruby colour. The wine bursts with cherry and plum flavours and with an alcohol of 7.5% vol it is an easy drinking wine for everyday enjoyment.
Immensely approachable, it is an everyday drinking wine for savouring on its own or enjoying with robustly flavoured pasta, meat and game dishes as well as cheeses.
variety : Cinsaut [ 20% Cabernet Sauvignon; 44% Cinsaut; 36% Muscat ]
winemaker : Bonnie Van Niekerk
wine of origin : Stelllenbosch
analysis : alc : 7.5 % vol rs : 70 g/l pH : 3.6 ta : 5.6 g/l
type : Red
pack : Bottle closure : Cork
in the vineyard : Background
Taking its name from one of South Africa's early peoples at the Cape, this wine celebrates the endurance and ingenuity of the Obikwa people, as well as the resilience of the ostrich. Indigenous to the area, together they survived tough times and tough terrain.
This wine is made in the Adam Tas cellars in Stellenbosch.
The vineyards
To ensure optimum quality and consistency, grapes were sourced widely to meet exacting standards.
This wine is a blend of Cabernet Sauvignon 20%, Cinsaut 44%and Muscat36%. The grapes for this wine were hand-picked from a selection of the Cape’s top vineyards in Stellenbosch, Paarl, Wellington and Robertson, harvested at a low balling to ensure a low alcohol and a fruit-driven character to the eventual wine.