Description
Blend: 50% Cabernet Sauvignon, 50% Merlot
Colour: Deep magenta red with a medium purple hue.
Aroma: Lovely subtle oak combined with plums and berry fruits.
Palate: The palate is filled with ripe plum from the merlot beautifully integrated with berry flavours. The mid-palate is medium weight with fine grained tannins following on to a long and luscious finish.
Drink now - 4 years.
The fruit was harvested and crushed with minimal sulphur. Acid and pH adjustments were made prior to fermentation and the juice was then inoculated with clean fermenting yeast. The ferment was pumped over twice daily for 10 days of fermentation.
The material was then pressed out with the pressings and free run portions combined. Malo-lactic fermentation was induced and completed in tank prior to racking into oak barriques. The wine was matured for 16 months in new, one and two year old French and American barriques. The wine was given a light fining treatment and coarse filtration prior to bottling in November.
