Description
Why wouldn’t you want a plush fruited, smooth, very versatile and consistent red wine? Well, our sentiments exactly, so keeping this in mind, Merlot fits the bill to a T and in the Karoo climes it offers us the opportunity to craft a buxom, fruit forward, smooth dry red wine – which with a few years cellaring gets even better.
Fruit for this wine originates from a selection of Merlot blocks ranging in age from a youthful 5 to spirited 15 years or older, harvested by hand in the cool of the morning and fermented in temperature controlled open top cement ferementers – called kuipe in Afrikaans or lagars in Portugal – which manual punch downs to gently coax optimum flavour and colour extraction from the grape skins, while maintaining aromatics and allowing unwanted phenols to blow-off. The wine is barrel matured utilising oak alternatives, with a portion spending 10 months in a 4th fill French oak barrels, prior to bottling with a light filtration.
Hand-harvested in the cool of the morning, crushed & fermented in open top cement fermenters (lagars) with manual pigeage to coax optimum flavours and colour from the fruit; matured using oak alternatives, as well as a portion matured in old French oak barrels, and lightly filtered at bottling.
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