Wine Composition

100% Shiraz

Winemakers Comments

Deep purple/red color, with an almost impenetrable core. Immediately engaging with sweet red and black berries, some vanilla and spice. The nose envelopes you and reminds one more of a lighter “new world” Syrah – one that celebrates the vibrancy and panache that the style delivers. The palate is much weightier than the nose suggests. The color gives it away, but you only find the truth in the tasting. Very opulent and spicely brooding, not foregoing the finesse and elegance of the nose, but overdelivering in girth and volume. A big wine, but at the same time finely tuned for balance.

Awards

John Platter | 4 stars

Technical Analysis

Alcohol Percentage

14%  

TA

6.1 g/l 

pH 

3.46

RS

3.3 g/l 

Cellar Techniques

Maturation lasted 18 months in 50% neutral 300L barrels, and 50% third fill 228L barrels with American heads.

Winemaker

Name - Henry Kotze

Winery

Pilgrim Wines is a unique wine company, dedicated to inspire, teach and surprise. They are a small family-owned business with a passion for winemaking. Well-known Winemaker Henry Kotzé (former Morgenster and now at the iconic Mulderbosch) carefully crafts the wines for owner and Viticulturist wife Riëtte Kotzé’s Pilgrim Wines brand.

They do not have their own vineyards, at the moment they source their grapes from small pockets of vineyards that they have come across in their everyday paths. These distinct parcels of land, happen to be in their home-grown Stellenbosch area and the amazing Voor Paardeberg regions. They partner with like minded ethical growers and believe in leaving nothing but footprints for the next generation. 

They focus on innovative methods with tried and tested cultivars, as well as experimental styles with unorthodox, unfamiliar cultivars. They like to discover the new and untried pathways in the journey of grape to bottle.