Lanzerac Premium Pinotage 2016

Name: Lanzerac Premium Pinotage 2016
Brand: Lanzerac
SKU: 44149

The 2016 Pinotage boasts an excellent deep colour, ripe berries and plums on the nose and palate with a good mouth-feel and lingering aftertaste. With 5 to 10 years’ maturation this wine will start to acquire the velvet density and luxurious chocolate and caramel flavours of its very early Lanzerac predecessors. A full-bodied, complex wine with a beautiful balance between fruit and wood showcasing a good tannin structure that will allow it to age extremely well.

Pair this proudly South African wine with flavourful dishes such as Kalahari venison medallions with a plum sauce, Cajun-spiced ‘blackened’ fish or a traditional Cape Malay curry.

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variety : Pinotage [ 100% Pinotage ]

winery : Lanzerac

winemaker : Wynand Lategan

wine of origin : Stellenbosch

analysis : alc : 14.48 % vol rs : 2.3 g/l pH : 3.48 ta : 5.6 g/l

type : Red style : Dry body : Full taste : Herbaceous wooded

pack : Bottle size : 750ml closure : Cork

ageing : Enjoy now or cellar for 5 - 10 Years.

in the vineyard : The grapes for the 2016 Lanzerac Premium Pinotage were sourced from four different vineyard blocks, D10, D7 and D8 from Lanzerac in the Jonkershoek Valley and a bush vine block from Amperbo in Bottelary. The Lanzerac blocks were 20 years (D10), 3 years (D7) and 8 years (D8) old respectively in 2016 and covers an area of 6.18 hectares. The yield for the 2016 vintage was 7.3 tons/hectare. The 3 Lanzerac blocks sits at an altitude of 400m - 420 meters above sea level with mainly deep red decomposed granite soils. Due to the dry and hot weather conditions the 2016 harvest season was earlier than normal.

about the harvest: Picking of the 2016 Pinotage grapes was done at the end of January.

in the cellar : The 2016 Pinotage boasts an excellent deep colour, ripe berries and plums on the nose and palate with a good mouth-feel and lingering aftertaste. With 5 to 10 years’ maturation this wine will start to acquire the velvet density and luxurious chocolate and caramel flavours of its very early Lanzerac predecessors. A full-bodied, complex wine with a beautiful balance between fruit and wood showcasing a good tannin structure that will allow it to age extremely well.

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