Description
With this being the case, we just can’t waste that colour and delicious flavour trapped in the skins, so we ferment this wine like a red. This year we decided to make 2 picks at harvest time. The earlier pick to help maintain acidity in a low acid year and the second pick, some 7 days later, to add more texture and depth. The grapes were destemmed into concrete tanks for fermentation and given a light pump over once a day for gentle extraction of the lovely rose-coloured hue and chalky tannin. Both picks were fermented separately on skins for 6 days and then pressed off and blended together. The wine was then placed back in concrete vessels for 6 months of aging.
Ingredients: Grapes, SO2.
Vitals
100% Pinot Gris
W.O Stellenbosch
Vineyard: Newlands
Planting Year: 2007
Grown by: Deon Joubert
Soil: “Koffeeklip”
Alcohol: 12.00 %
pH: 3.69
Total Acidity: 5.1 g/L
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