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Eenzaamheid Pinotage 2021
R294.00
Our Pinotage is a full-bodied wine with red fruit on the nose. This wine has great concentration of flavours as a result of dryland viticulture. Firm acidity and big structure will facilitate good ageing potential to reach optimum drinkability in 6 – 10 years.
Grapes are hand-picked from a parcel of low-yielding dryland bush vines and chilled before being sorted and destemmed. The grape juice and skins are cold macerated at temperatures between 5 – 8°C for up to 4 days. Fermentation takes place in open top fermentation vessels and the rising cap is punched down every 4 – 6 hours. Malolactic fermentation takes places in 300L barrels in which the wine will also undergo its maturation process.
ANALYSIS: ALC 14% | RS 2.2 g/l | TA 5.3 g/l | pH 4.04
6 in stock
Description
In Dutch, the name means “solitude”, and is a reference to the property’s isolation from Cape Town when the farm was named in 1693 – a time when a journey of 60km required a good horse if the rider wanted to arrive within a day.
A shortage of grain, fresh fruit and vegetables in the Cape obliged the governor of the Cape, Simon van der Stel, to allocate small farms to officials and soldiers of the Dutch East India Company.
The soldiers and sailors mostly came from the German states, and normally had a 5-year contract after which they could either return home to their families or apply for a farm to be granted to them and become free burghers in the Cape of Good Hope.
Additional Information
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