La Petite Ferme - Cabernet Sauvignon, Franschhoek - 2018 (750ml)

Wine Composition

100% Cabernet Sauvignon

Winemakers Comments

The Cabernet Sauvignon shows itself in a beautiful garnet colour. It has firm ripe tannins in its youth. Violets & Cassis leading into dense ripe black berry and plump fruit on the palate.

Technical Analysis

Alcohol Percentage 

14.4%

TA

5.8 g/l

pH

3.54

RS

2.7g/l 

Cellar Techniques

Picked between 25.0- 25.5 Balling. Fermentation in open fermenters for 10 days, cap punched down manually every 5 hours. Wood maturation: 225L French Oak barrels for 14 months, 35% new.

Winemaker

Name - Wikus Pretorius

Winery

Situated on the side of the majestic Middagkrans Mountains of the magnificent Franschhoek Valley, the west-facing La Petite Ferme is one of the more intimate wineries in the Cape Winelands.
More than 300 years ago, when the Huguenots arrived, they brought with them their age-old French wine and food culture. Theses amazing vineyards that cover these mountain slopes boast a valley rich in history and are centered around a picturesque village of warm and friendly people.
After the revocation of the Edict of Nantes in France in 1685, when Protestantism was outlawed, hundreds of so-called Huguenots fled their homeland, 277 of them arriving by ship at the Cape of Good Hope. Many of them were given land by the Dutch government in a valley called Oliphantshoek (Elephant Corner) - so named because of the vast herds of elephants that roamed the area. Soon after they settled here, it becomes known as Franschhoek (French Corner).' Most of the wineries in Franschhoek still have their original French names and the homesteads are all Cape Dutch with gorgeous Oaks and luscious vineyards.
The Dendy Youngs have been farming in Franschhoek since 1972 and in 1994 Mark and Josephine Dendy Young purchased La Petite Ferme. The wine cellar, where Mark is the resident winemaker and his father John the viticulturist, is an integral part of the food and wine experience at La Petite Ferme Restaurant. Mark�s energy and passion for his wine shines through his product and seems to be a wonderful anecdote while visiting and tasting.
La Petite Ferme has been honored in the Wine Magazine's top 100 restaurants, for the sixth consecutive year. In Wine Magazine's special 10th Anniversary edition, the restaurant was voted as one of the top ten restaurants in the country. The restaurant has furthermore been listed by Conde Nast Traveler US as one of the top fifteen Best Value Establishments in the world and again in November 2005 as Best Value accommodation. In 2006 La Petite Baleine was voted as one of the top nine seaside villas to rent by Conde Nast.