Redhill Pinotage
Tasting Notes
Dark red in color, this Pinotage is bursting with fruit with aromas of cranberries, black cherries and spicy raspberries with a perfume of violet, vanilla and musk candy. With excellent oak integration, fine elegant tannins and tangy acidity, the wine has a weightless intensity to it that makes it a fine wine.
Vintage Notes
Higher rainfall during the 2019 winter months and the coinciding increase in dam levels resulted in better water availability for vineyards. Even budbreak and a large number of flowering bunches showed early promise. Conditions remained favorable, except for some wind during flowering and rain during December that required meticulous vineyard management. Moderate temperatures and dry weather followed, resulting in an excellent season. Above average yields with healthy and excellent quality grapes. An intense season that required immense focus and precise execution to manage. However, if managed well, it holds immense potential.
Winemaking
Hand harvested at optimal ripeness on the 5th of February 2020. After meticulous sorting in the vineyard the grapes are destemmed and crushed to two open top fermenters. A total of 20% of the grapes are fermented as whole clusters. Two days cold soaking before inoculation. Manual punch downs every two hours gives a short, but intensive extraction. Fermentation temperature peaked at 30°C. Pressed after 6 days on the skins, where alcoholic fermentation finished in the tank. Malolactic fermentation occurred in barrel.
Technical Information
- Vintage:
- 2020
- Alcohol:
- 13.9%
- Region:
- Stellenbosch
- RS:
- 2.4G/L
- Varietals:
- 100% Pinotage
- PH:
- 3.5
- TA:
- 5.8G/L
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Redhill Pinotage 2020
