Fantail Pinotage Rosé 2011

This salmon pink wine delivers flavours of strawberries and raspberries. These flavours follow trough onto a fruity, luscious palate that finishes with a refreshing crispness.


variety : Pinotage [ 100% Pinotage ]
winemaker : Jacques Cilliers
wine of origin : Simonsberg-Stellenbosch
analysis : alc : 10.37 % vol  rs : 5.9 g/l  pH : 3.37  ta : 5.5 g/l  
type : Rose  style : Off Dry   wooded
pack : Bottle  closure : Screwcap  

in the vineyard : Trellising: Bush vines

Vineyard Age: Pinotage 16 years

Density/Block: 3 396 vines per hectare

Soil Preparation: Mechanical preparation adjusting of pH with lime.

about the harvest: Harvesting by hand in picking baskets which get tipped in bins for transport to the cellar.
Date of Ripening: Pinotage 27/01/2011

in the cellar : Basic Cellar Procedures
Receiving of grapes during the day. Crushing and de-stemming and the mash are pumped to Marionette fermentation tanks where the juice receives 3 hours of skin contact. Fermentation took place at 12° - 17° C.

Press: Bucher Pneumatic press. Wine from pressed skins was kept separately from the free run wine.

Bottling Date: 01/06/2011

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