Stellenrust Cinsaut 75cl 2020

This wine offers enchanting strawberry, red cherry and vibrant earthy notes on the nose. These flavours carry forward to a silky palate with ripe fruit and subtle cedar oak.

decomposed granite

The grapes used for this wine are harvested from a block of old bush vine Cinsaut planted to decomposed granite in 1964 on our Bottelary property. It is unirrigated and like a camel – it can go through a whole summer without water.

Ripening is often much slower with older vineyards and sugar levels barely reach 24 Balling but with optimally ripe fruit. Grapes are harvested between 23 and 24 Balling and allowed cold maceration for at least 2 days. Active skin fermentation through a combination of Rhone and Bordeaux yeast is done in open concrete tanks with regular punch downs of the cap. The wine is kept 7-10 days on the skin and finishes malolactic fermentation in stainless steel. It is then matured for 16 months in 10% new and the rest second and third fill French oak barrels.

The wine is kept 7-10 days on the skin and finishes malolactic fermentation in stainless steel. It is then matured for 16 months in 10% new and the rest second and third fill French oak barrels.