Wine Composition
51% Merlot, 18% Cabernet Franc, 12% Cabernet Sauvignon, 14% Malbec, 5% Petit Verdot
Winemakers Comments
This soft, approachable ruby-hued beauty is a true testament to vines lovingly reared and winemaking raised to an art form. A Right Bank-style Bordeaux blend, De Toren Z comprises a symphonic blend of five Bordeaux varietals. You’ll find it tantalizingly soft on the tongue, with a hint of aniseed, liquorice, raspberry and cranberries lending a fresh acidity to its polished finish… plus, of course, all the finesse that makes Bordeaux-style wines so prized among the world’s most enthusiastic wine lovers.
Awards
Tim Atkins | 90 points
Wine Spectator | 91 points
Technical Analysis
Alcohol Percentage
14.5%
TA
5.5 g/l
pH
3.53
RS
2.9 g/l
Maturation
Aged in a climatized barrel room (16 degrees Celsius at 80% humidity) for 12 months in 225L French and American Oak. Malbec had the benefit of American Oak.
To release all the flavours please decant at least one hour before consumption. It is recommended to serve this wine at optimal temperature (15-18 degrees Celsius).
Winemaker
Name: Albie Koch
Winery
De Toren is a boutique Private Cellar, established by Emil & Sonette Den Dulk in 1994. The farm was named De Toren, which translated from Dutch means "the tower", and refers to wine structure which allows for gravity-flow winemaking.
The farm's maiden release was the 1999 vintage "Fusion V", a Cabernet Sauvignon driven five varietal Bordeaux style blend; a first for South Africa's wine industry.
"De Toren doesn't have "a harvest" it has several micro-harvests over the course of many weeks; the time and location of each harvest are determined by near red aerial imagin. This technology allows us to monitor the vigor in clusters within each block, with different colours representing different growth patterns. When a cluster approaches ripeness we isolate demarcate and harvest separately; always at optimum ripeness. We are also able to identify variations within the vineyards with this technology that enables us to adapt our canopy management decisions...gaining valuable data and experience from each vintage and optimizing our harvests year on year - aiming for perfection!"
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