Meerlust Pinot Noir 2019

Name: Meerlust Pinot Noir 2019
Brand: Meerlust
SKU: 47807

The wine shows a vibrant garnet colour with a youthful appearance. On the nose the wine shows pronounced lifted floral perfume with a brooding and seductive red berry fruit, earthy, wild mushrooms and hints of spice.

On the palate there are very pure Pinot fruit flavours on entry with red cherry and musk flavours coupled with fresh acidity. The wine has layered complexity with great elegance and finesse. Very fine lacy, almost powdery tannin on the finish.

White and red meats, duck, Parma ham, grilled line fish, tuna, wild mushrooms and traditional cheeses.

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variety : Pinot Noir [ 100% Pinot Noir ]

winery : Meerlust Estate

winemaker : Chris Williams

wine of origin : Stellenbosch

analysis : alc : 12.89 % vol rs : 1.5 g/l pH : 3.62 ta : 5.3 g/l

type : Red style : Dry body : Medium taste : Fragrant wooded

pack : Bottle size : 750ml closure : Cork

ageing :

Up to 2025 provided wine is stored in ideal cellar conditions.

in the vineyard :

Selected from 3 vineyard blocks, situated on loamy gravel topsoil with clay sub-soil. The vineyards are located at the highest point on the Estate (85-120m) with Northwest facing aspect to benefit from the cool, maritime breeze from False Bay. 30% vendage vert (green harvesting cluster removal) at 80% veraison to ensure concentration and even ripening.

about the harvest: Grapes were handpicked on the 24^th and 30^th of January in the coolness of the morning.

in the cellar : 30% Whole bunches were manually transferred into fermentation tanks and filled with crushed grapes. Inoculation with selected yeast strain took place with careful pigeage twice daily before pressing into French oak tight grained Hogsheads for malo-lactic fermentation. Maturation took place in barrel with 57% being new French oak and 43% being second fill for 10 months.

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