Reasons to choose this:
This Pinotage is brimming with dark plum and mulberry notes and has a soft, fruity finish.
Food suggestions:
Excellent served with rich meat dishes like oxtail.
Welmoed Pinotage 2015 (6/case) (R54/BOTTLE)
A charming medium to full bodied wine with a deep ruby-red colour. Ripe fruit and raspberries on the nose. Mulberry fruit and juicy dark plum palate with elegant tannin and soft, fruity finish. Well integrated oak aromas complement a well-balanced wine.
VITICULTURE AND VINIFICATION NOTES
Grapes are sourced from selected vineyard blocks in the Stellenbosch region prior to the harvest season. Cool Mediterranean climate and loamy clay soils. Harvested at optimum ripeness beginning to mid February – picked at 24ºB. Fermentation (25 - 28ºC) takes place on its skins in static red fermenters for approximately 5 days, pressed off skins prior to dryness to avoid any unnecessary varietal tannins, yet retaining its soft ripe tannins. Malolactic fermentation and maturation takes place in stainless steel tank with 2g/lt of selected medium toast French oak staves for approximately 8 months.
MATURATION POTENTIAL
Enjoy within the next three years.
SUITABILITY FOR VEGETARIANS OR VEGANS
Suitable for vegetarians but not for vegans.
FOOD SUGGESTION
Oxtail makes an ideal food partner for this wine, as do a variety of other red meat dishes.
Alcohol Vol :13.33%
pH :3.58
Sugar :3.48 g/ℓ
Acidity :5.48 g/ℓ