Wine Composition
100% Cabernet Sauvignon
Winemakers Comments
The nose is immediately alluring with floral delicacy, cassis and spicy Christmas cake aromatics. A mélange of blackberry fruit with spice, tobacco leaf and cedar flavors are immediately apparent on the rounded, silky, smooth palate. Layered and rich, there is a sensation of leashed power with a supple muscularity apparent in the seamlessly integrated oak and fruit balance. Classic, refined and rewarding, the wine is elegant, harmonious and long.
Awards
TA | 92 points (2017)
Technical Analysis
Alcohol Percentage
14.5%
TA
5.6 g/l
pH
3.67
RS
2.9 g/l
Cellar Techniques
Grapes are picked by hand, placed into small lug boxes and transported to the cellar in refrigerated trucks. In the cellar, the whole berries are sorted with an optical sorting machine and then gravity-fed into wooden fermenters. Each batch is cold-soaked for a few days and then slowly brought up in temperature. Fermentation takes place naturally in wooden tanks. After fermentation 5 days of maceration is allowed. The wines are then aged for 24 months in 60% new French oak, bottled and then finally bottle-aged for an addition- al 24 months, before being released.
Winemaker
Name - Dawie Botha
Winery
Anthonij Rupert Wyne was founded on the farm L’Ormarins in Franschhoek. Originally owned by the late Anthonij Rupert, who passed away in 2001, the farm was taken over by his brother Johann Rupert in 2003. It was Johann Rupert who constructed a state-of-the-art winemaking facility on the estate, and the beginnings of what was to become a sprawling enterprise with a focus on terroir specific wines.
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