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Stark-Conde Lingen 2012

This unique blend has the typical rich fruit and soft, elegant tannins that are the hallmarks of Jonkershoek Valley wines. The relatively high percentage of petit verdot adds an intriguing wild perfumed note to the wine. This is also the first vintage we have incorporated Petit Syrah into the blend.

variety : Cabernet Sauvignon [ 43% Cabernet Sauvignon, 26% Shiraz, 26% Petit Verdot, 5% Petite Sirah ]
winemaker : José Conde
wine of origin : Jonkershoek Valley
analysis : alc : 14.5 % vol  rs : 2.1 g/l  ta : 5.6 g/l  
type : Red  body : Soft  taste : Fruity   wooded
pack : Bottle  size : 750ml  closure : Cork  
in the vineyard :  Rootstock: Richter 110
Fruit source: from the Lingen vineyard in Jonkershoek Valley
Age of vines: 12 years
Trellis: 5-wire vsp
Irrigation: supplemental drip irrigation
Vineyard elevation: 250m
Slope: South-West

This vineyard was planned with the idea of making a single-vineyard blended red. It is a small, 2-hectare enclosed vineyard situated about 200 metres from the Oude Nektar farm (Stark-Condé). The soils, however, are different - vilafonte as opposed to the clovelly and hutton soils on Oude Nektar - and the resultant wines are correspondingly different: softer in structure and with a wild fynbos note.
about the harvest: The grapes for this wine were harvested over a month-long period from mid-February to mid-March.
Yield: 6.5t/ha
in the cellar : The grapes were cooled overnight before being de-stemmed and hand-sorted. The sorted grapes were then crushed into small, open-top fermentors and cold-soaked for three days before the on-set of fermentation. About half the wine was fermented with its natural yeasts. Fermentation occurred over a period of 7-9 days with manual punchdowns given every 4 - 6 hours. After fermentation, the wine was basked pressed and racked into 300-l oak barrels, mostly French, but also a touch Hungarian and American, about 35% new. The wine was bottled without fining and with a light polishing filtration after 22 months barrel maturation.
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Stark-Conde Lingen 2012
Cabernet Sauvignon