Boschendal 1685 Merlot 2020

Rich red cherry and plum notes. Elegant cool climate style, good fruit intensity and length. Rich red cherry plum and pronounced ripe mulberry flavours. An elegant cool-climate style of wine with intensity of fruit and length. Good natural balance between primary fruit aromas, colour and structure extraction, rounded and integrated by subtle oak aging from 300-litre barrels

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variety : Merlot [ 100% Merlot ]

winery : Boschendal Estate

winemaker : Jacques Viljoen

wine of origin : Western Cape

analysis : alc : 14 % vol rs : 3.0 g/l pH : 3.5 ta : 5.8 g/l

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

pack : Bottle size : 0 closure : Cork

ageing : The multi-layered complexity of this wine will develop over the following three to seven years.

in the cellar : After hand-harvesting and destemming, the berries were mechanically sorted to remove any green and to allow only clean and healthy berries into the fermentation tank. Fermentation took place in stainless steel tanks and every vineyard was handled differently to promote its individual
unique natural terroir expression.

Extended skin maceration was practiced on some of the wines originating from more robust soils. Wines from cooler-climate vineyards will go through malolactic fermentation in stainless steel to promote the expressive blueberry notes associated with these sites and also to bring freshness to the mid-palate. The wine was aged in 100% French oak 300L barrels. 20% New wood

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