De Morgenzon - Maestro Red, Stellenbosch - 2017 (750ml)

Wine Composition

35% Cabernet Sauvignon, 36% Merlot, 5% Malbec, 10% Petit Verdot, 14% Cabernet Franc

Winemakers Comments

This wine has notes of cassis with rich, red fruit, dried herbs, perfume and plums on the nose. The palate is soft and silky with integrated flavors of cigar box and black fruit.

Awards

Tim Atkins | 92 points

Technical Analysis

Alcohol Percentage 

14.5%

RS

1.64 g/l

Cellar Techniques

Fruit was carefully hand-sorted and naturally fermented, whole berry. Post-fermentation maceration was allowed for two weeks, followed by gentle pressing. 

Winemaker

Name - Carl van der Merwe

Winery

DeMorgenzon, ‘the morning sun,’ was so named as it is the first part of the Stellenboschkloof valley to see the sun because of its high altitude and aspects. We cover the top southern and eastern slopes of Ribbokkop, overlooking the pinnacle of Kanonkop from where a cannon was fired to alert the farms in the region that a ship had put into Table Bay. The first road from Cape Town to Stellenbosch ran through the Stellenbosch Kloof.

In 2003 Wendy and Hylton Appelbaum bought DeMorgenzon and have since transformed DeMorgenzon into a 224-acre garden vineyard, where abundant wildflowers grow between the vines.