Simonsvlei Pinotage Reserve

VINTAGE: 1995

DESCRIPTION: Fresh and spicy, with nice black cherry flavors. Chocolate notes linger on the long finish. A delicious and fairly rich wine.

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

SOIL: Granite

TRELLISING: Bushvine

YIELD: 9 tons/ha

VINIFICATION: Hand picked, destalked, and placed in cement tanks. Aged in barrels for four months, 100%. Fining- eggwhite. Filteration - Kieselguhr & sheet. Fermentation: on skins for five days -25 deg C. Malolactic - Yes.

CHEMICAL ANALYSIS:

Alcohol: 12.10%/vol

pH: 3.74

Total acidity: 5.14

Sugar: 1.30