De Reuck Cabernet Sauvignon/Merlot 2007,South Africa de Reuck price supplier

Crow’s Nest / Marcel de Reuck

          The Family owned, boutique, award winning winery Crow’s Nest produces classical, complex wines for the connoisseur. Owner / Winemaker Marcel de Reuck says, “Wines should have a presence, and our wines speak for themselves.”  

“Producing the perfect wine is a never ending quest that demands all our time and energy. We know there is an easier and cheaper way of making wine and even easier ways of making a living”, but here Marcel de Reuck has chosen his way, which can only be summed up as, no compromise, period.

          “We strive to produce a wine that has a consistent Marcel de Reuck style with a silky, fruit driven mid-palate, a classic wine which is harmonious and well balanced with a style of its own.”

This Syrah is a multi award winning wine with complex bouquet and palate, aged in new oak. Smokey ham, berries,peppers, spice, silky and fruit-driven palate.

Marcel de Reuck - cabernet sauvignon / Merlot 2007

Grapes are hand picked in small crates, hand sorted in the cellar.

Destalked, crushed and cold soaked for three days.

Fermentation is started and skin contact for 26 days commences (the norm is 7-9 days),

The wine is 80 % French oak and 20% Hungarian oak barrel matured – 20% new for 30 months

The wine are very lightly filtered and not cold stabilized for maximum quality (kept as natural as possible)

Low sulpher content, within that of organic wine specifications

Tasting notes

Pleasingly proportioned, aged in barriques, 20% new - which show as a gentle, sweet, cedar background to the peppery blackcurrants & red cherries. Substantial fruit tannins, hint of good development.        

PH     3.71  

TA     5.6 g/l

R/S    3.2 g/l

ALC  15.5 %