Description
Date harvested
24 February 2021
Date bottled
20 September 2021
Date released
13 December 2022
No bottles produced
1636 bottles
Wine maker
Schalk van der Westhuizen, Lanrust, Helderberg
Vinification
Grapes are harvested first thing in the morning and delivered to the cellar where the grapes are destemmed and cooled down to 150.
Five to six hour skin contact before pressing and worked on reductively.
Anchor Alchemy II yeast was used, and cold fermentation employed. Bentonite used for protein stability and wine kept at low temperatures over a long period for cold stabilization.
Wine on lees until filtration for seven months.
Style & Storage
Fruit driven with dominant tropical flavours. Wine can be stored up to four or five years.
Alcohol
13.26 %
Residual Sugar
2.0 g/l
Total Acidity
6.5 g/l
PH
3.34
