Wildekrans Barrel Select Reserve Pinotage 2010

Name: Wildekrans Barrel Select Reserve Pinotage 2010
Brand: Wildekrans
SKU: 32608

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 ]

winery : Wildekrans Wine Estate

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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