Boland Pinotage

VINTAGE: 1995

DESCRIPTION: An accessible wine with a prominent fruitiness which is backed by a hint of wood flavors. This is a medium bodied wine and is well balanced and versatile. Enjoy on its own or with a variety of dishes. The wine can be matured for another four to six years.

CLIMATE: Mediterranean - dry warm summers and cold wet winters with an annual rainfall of about 700 mm

SOIL: Vineyards in Voor-Paardeberg area and north-eastern slopes of Paardeberg. Granite soils

YIELD: 8 -10 tons/ha

VINIFICATION: Only the healthiest grapes are picked, destalked and crushed. The juice is fermented in cement tanks and for 75% of the duration of alcoholic fermentation is pumped over the skin cape twice a day for color and flavor extraction. It is then fermented until dry before being racked to stainless steel tanks where it undergoes malo-lactic fermentation. Thirty percent of the wine (the fuller portion with higher alcohol) is matured in new to third fill small oak barrels for 12 months. It is then blended with the tank portion, filtered and bottled.

CHEMICAL ANALYSIS:

Alcohol: 11.8%/vol

pH: 3.4

Total acidity: 5.9 g/l

Sugar: 1.9g/l