| Name: |
cabernet sauvignon Shiraz |
| Vintage: |
2005 |
| Awards: |
3,5 Stars Platters Wine Guide (2008), RSA
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| Production: |
15 000 cases |
| Barrel Ageing: |
16 months in second and third fill French oak barrels |
| Maturation: |
Up to 6 years from vintage |
| Alcohol: |
14.00% by volume |
| Residual Sugar: |
2.00 g/l |
| Total Acid: |
5.70 g/l |
| PH: |
3.54 |
| Blend: |
54% Cabernet Sauvignon, 26% Shiraz, 20% merlot |
Food Matching
Grilled or roasted game fish (without a lemon-based sauce), pizza (not too much chilli), stews, grills. For pudding - pears in red wine, particularly if the red wine used is this wine. |
Tasting Note
Peppery and spicy with rich Berry aromas and fruit flavours, this wine has style and elegance that belies its price. You'd be pressed to find a better value for money red wine in South Africa. |
Independent Tasting Note
Designed to please, and does, with smoky, plummy styling and smoothly rounded body. - Platters (2007) |
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Sssssssh! We wont tell if you dont, but this is a much better wine than its price would suggest.
In much the same way that many Bordeaux chateaux have their second wines, this has been ours since 1991.
Specific vineyard blocks supply the major portion of the blend. However (due to our near fanatical selection criterea) there are always Grapes grown for our Super Premiums which just dont make the grade - grapes which then find themselves in this wine, often giving it a classier character than many wines double or triple the price.
Once the final blend was made for our 2004 vintage (a very good year for reds in Stellenbosch too!) the wine was taken to 100% small French oak, where it remained for fourteen months.
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