A full bodied Pinotage with a purple deep red colour. The intense black berry and purple fruit flavours are well integrated with the cedar flavours of the French oak. A balanced wine that have the potential to last for at least 7 years and longer in the bottle. The wine will go well with red meat, game, rich cheese and curry or spicy foods.

Grape Variety	100% Pinotage
Climate	In general a very cool and dry growing aswell as ripening season. December being the only dry month and March had above average rainfall. Because of the cool ripening we had a very even and slow ripening period with good sugar, colour and flavour developements. In general a good year.
Soil	Oakleaf
Trellising	Mainly bush vines
Age of Vines	10 - 20 yearsa old
Yield	5.5 Tons/ha
Vinification	5 days in open fermenters. Punch cap by hand. Fermentation temperature between 28 - 30°C. After malolactic fermentation in stainless steel tanks the wine is matured in 50% first and 50% second fill french oak barrels for 14 months.

Free SO2	43 mg/l
Total SO2	87 mg/l
pH	3.42
Total Acidity	6.2 g/l
Residual Sugar	2.0 g/l
Volatile Acidity	0.53 g/l
Alcohol Volume	14.00%