Raka Quinary 2016

Dark plum colour. A soft appealing wine with flavours of tea leaf, star anise and succulent black cherries. These are well balanced with supple textured oak.


variety : Cabernet Sauvignon [ 45% Cabernet Sauvignon, 13% Cabernet Franc 31% Merlot, 6% Malbec, 5% Petit Verdot ]
winery : Raka Wines
winemaker : Josef Dreyer
wine of origin : Klein River
analysis : alc : 14.00 % vol  rs : 2.9 g/l  pH : 3.53  ta : 6.0 g/l  
type : Red  style : Dry  body : Full  taste : Fruity   wooded
pack : Bottle  size : 750ml  closure : Cork  

AWARDS
2019 Veritas Awards - SO (Silver Outstanding)
Top 100 - Double Gold
about the harvest: All grapes were hand picked in small lug boxes.

in the cellar : Grapes were pre cooled to 5ο‚°and sorted twice before a pure yeast culture was inoculated. The juice was pumped over the skins 3-5 times per day for 5 days. Once fermentation was complete, the wine was drained of the primary lees and transferred to a resting tank. Malolactic fermentation and a brief settling period preceded the wine to a combination of 225 litre barrels of French oak (25% first fill the rest second third and fourth fill.) The wine spent between 12- 14 months in barrel before bottling and labelling.

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