Lovely black fruit flavours upon entry with delicate cedar oak aromas from Barrel maturation. A wine with excellent balance, lovely core, and a long, juicy a ertaste.
This wine will pair well with Cape Malay curries, lamb chops, and dark chocolate soufflé.
variety : Pinotage [ 100% Pinotage ]
winemaker : Anri Truter
wine of origin : Stellenbosch
analysis : alc : 14.5 % vol rs : 2.4 g/l pH : 3.56 ta : 5.6 g/l so2 : 105 mg/l
type : Red style : Dry body : Full taste : Fruity wooded
pack : Bottle size : 750ml closure : Cork
in the vineyard : We had an excellent winter with the ideal conditions for the vines during their rest period. Budding started end of August with a lot of rain, which created high disease pressure. In October, we had strong winds that continued until mid-January. The wind had a positive effect on the disease pressure but had a negative effect on flowering, and in the end our yield. Harvest started 7 days earlier at the end of January, due to a few heat waves in January. Weather conditions were great during harvest, and we finished early, on 13 March. Quality of the grapes looked excellent even though we are down 20% on our long-term average production. In general, I am very happy with the vintage, although I would have loved a little bit more grapes!
in the cellar : 4–5 days in open fermenters with the cap punched through by hand every two hours. Fermentation temperature was between 25–28°C. After malolactic fermentation, the wine matured in second/third fill French oak barrels for 12 months.