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Stellenrust Peppergrinder’s Shiraz 2020
R264.00
The Peppergrinder’s Shiraz is the epitome of what Golden Triangle Shiraz is capable of. It speaks of terroir, climate and age-old vineyards.
This wine offers a dark brooding nose of a distinct white pepper and lifted violet note. The palate shows blackberry and red cherry, but also a persistent peppery spice and violet nuance with a lingering finish of black olives and soft vanilla undertones.
Grapes are crushed and allowed to cold macerate for 24 hours in open fermenters. 38% of the wine is fermented as whole bunches. It is inoculated with French Rhone yeast strains and the juice ferments on the skins for 10 – 14 days with manual punch down of the cap every 2 – 6 hours. The juice is drained off the skins and allowed to finish alcoholic and malolactic fermentation in stainless steel tanks. Barrel maturation varies from 20 – 24 months of which 95% are French oak and 5% American oak.
Description
The grapes used for this wine are harvested from a single vineyard of Shiraz which was planted in 1972. It used to be planted amongst tobacco, and the only grapes on their Helderberg property. Sadly, it was sold off to the cooperative, but in the last 7 years they have gone outside the norm to protect and preserve these old vineyards, and getting several of them across different cultivars back into shape.
Additional Information
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