Description
TASTING NOTES
BLEND INFORMATION
FOOD SUGGESTIONS
IN THE VINEYARD
ABOUT THE HARVEST
IN THE CELLAR
Harvest commenced on the 21st of February and carried through to the 1st of March. Handpicked, crushed and fermented on skins in open top fermenters allowing punch downs and gentle pump-overs to extract colour, flavour and tannin. Malolactic fermentation in French oak puncheons.
Aged for 15 months in 5% new and the balance in older French puncheons of 500ℓ capacity.
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
Neil Ellis and his son Warren make a varied and excellent range of wines using fruit from four different vineyard regions: Elgin, the Jonkershoek Valley, Piekenierskloof and, the source of this wine, Groenekloof, near Darling on South Africa’s Atlantic coast. It is sourced from unirrigated, low-yielding bush vines on decomposed granite and clay soils and aged in larger, 500-litre French oak puncheons.
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