Muratie - Ansela van de Caab 2007 (750ml)

Alcohol Percentage
19.5%

Total Acidity
6.1 g/l 

Ph
3.79 

Residual Sugar
1.9 g/l

Vineyards/Vintage

Ansela van de Caab is an excellent reflection of the huge influence that great terroir plays in producing red wines that has the potential to age and mature gracefully.

Cellar Techniques

After harvesting the grapes were crushed, destalked and fermented in a classic open fermenters. Malolactic fermentation is done in French Oak barrels. After 12 months of barrel maturation, the varietals are individually tasted and chosen for the Ansela blend. This blend is re-introduced into French Oak for a further 6 months to ensure that a good marriage takes place between the varietals. The wine is bottled unfiltered.

Winemaker

Winery

Ansela's story begins during this dark period in history with the Dutch colonists capturing a Portuguese slave ship carrying slaves that had been forcibly taken from their home country of Guinea. One of the slaves, a woman, was enslaved in the Cape�s notorious Castle. Here the woman gave birth to a baby girl who was named Ansela. During those time slaves born in the Cape were only given Christian names, followed by Van de Caab - Dutch for 'from the Cape'. Ansela spent her infant years as a child slave in the vicinity of the Cape Castle, After reaching womanhood, Ansela fell in love with Lourens Campher, a dashing German soldier in service of the Dutch East Indian Company. They obviously had to keep their illicit love affair a secret and could not even afford to dream of getting married. Lourens had a deep love for the soil and had always dreamt of becoming a farmer. So when the Cape Governor Wilhelm Adriaan van der Stel granted a farm to Lourens in 1658, he moved to this piece of land at the foot of the Simonsberg Mountains, some 40km from Cape Town, now known as Muratie.