Barrel Select Reserve Pinotage 2010
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| IN THE VINEYARD: |
| AREA: |
Bot River, Walker Bay Ward |
| SOIL TYPE: |
Bokkeveld shale, Klapmuts |
| AGE OF VINES: |
17 years |
| HARVEST/CELLAR: |
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Grapes harvested from very low yeilding bushvine at 2 tons/ha. Handpicked early morning, delicately destalked and crushed. Cold soak macuration overnight. Inoculated with special yeast where pumpovers occured every 4 hours. Only free run juice was used. Malolactic fermentation in new french oak barrels and futher matured for 24 months.
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ORDER THIS WINE
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| AGEING POTENTIAL: |
7 to 10 years.
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| FOOD SUGGESTIONS: |
| Roast chicken or duck with vegetables, lamb chops, Chocolate Soufflé or with bittersweet chocolate. |
| TECHNICAL ANALYSIS |
| GRAPE VARIETY: |
| Pinotage |
| WINE MAKER: |
| William Wilkinson |
| TECHNICAL DATA: |
PH: 3.6
T.A: 6.0
Alc: 14.5%
R. S: 2.1 |
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