Wine Composition

100% Petit Verdot

Winemakers Comments

The flavours and fruit concentration are particularly evident, as the red cultivars achieved ultimate alcohol and sugar levels. A perfect partner to your herb crusted lamb kebab.

Technical Analysis

Alcohol Percentage 

14%

TA

6.4 g/l

pH

3.45

RS

2.1 g/l 

Vinification

Two East facing Petit Verdot vineyards, planted adjacent to each other  produce  perfumed  yet  powerful  wines.  Hand  harvested  at  the  point  of   intersection between tannin ripeness and fruit concentration, the  fermenting juice is pumped over once  a day for the first two thirds of the  fermentation  and  then  left  alone  to  ferment  dry  without  any  more   extraction.  The  result  is  perfumed,  ink  black  wines  with  fine,  dry  tannins   and hints  of cedar and violets. The various parcels within these vineyards  are  fermented  apart,  this  allows  us  to  select  the  best  5  barrels  for  this  reserve  bottling.  The  wine  is  aged  in  100%  new,  tight  grain  French  oak  barrels for 18 months. 

Winemaker

Gyles Webb 

Winery

After establishing Thelema Mountain Vineyards as an iconic Stellenbosch wine estate, Gyles Webb embarked on a new project in the early 2000’s to develop a range of small-scale, cool-climate wines.

After searching the Cape for the perfect site, he discovered a small apple orchard in the Elgin Valley, and Sutherland Vineyards was born.

Sutherland Vineyards is situated just 9 km off the Atlantic Ocean with altitudes of 140 to 250m above sea level. Due to this proximity, ideal cool climate conditions are created. The resulting wines are more balanced with great depth and complexity of flavour.