Wildekrans Barrel Select Reserve Pinotage 2010

An iconic Pinotage with its quality of ripe, fresh raspberries and plums with characterful intensity. It follows up on its promise with full flavour and a sensually lingering aftertaste.

Roast chicken or duck with vegetables, lamb chops, chocolate soufflé or with bittersweet chocolate.

variety : Pinotage [ 100% Pinotage ]
winemaker : William Wilkinson
wine of origin : Bot River
analysis : alc : 14.5 % vol  rs : 2.1 g/l  pH : 3.6  ta : 6.0 g/l  
type : Red  style : Dry  body : Full  taste : Fruity   wooded
pack : Bottle  closure : Cork  

AWARDS
2013: Decanter World Wine  Awards 2013 - Gold

ageing : 7 - 10 years

in the vineyard : Soil type: Bokkeveld shale, Klapmuts
Age of vines: 17 years

about the harvest: Grapes harvested from very low yielding bushvine at 2 tons/ha. Handpicked early morning.

in the cellar : After harvesting grapes were delicately destalked and crushed. Cold soak maceration overnight. Inoculated with special yeast where pump-overs occurred every 4 hours. Only free run juice was used. Malolactic fermentation in new French oak barrels and further matured for 24 months.

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