Wine Composition

100% Cabernet Franc

Winemakers Comments

A deep dark ruby and purple colour promises body and power on this wine.  The  aromas  of  fresh  earth,  minerals,  black  cherry  and  mocha  certainly  deliver  all  the  traits  of  a  wine  that  is  dominated  by  clean,  linear  fruit  and  a  hedonistic  mouthful  of  soft  juicy  tannins.  The  flesh  and weight of the wine make it voluptuous and abundant with a long, round and lush finish.

Previous Awards

Technical Analysis

Alcohol Percentage

13.88%

TA

5.9 g/l

pH

3.46

RS

4.1 g/l

Cellar Techniques

Grapes  where  hand  harvested  on  Warwick  Estate  at  sunrise  into  lug  boxes.  The  cold  bunches  were  destemmed  and  berries  hand  sorted  before  being  transferred  to  a  stainless  steel  tank.  Cold  soaking  for  five  days  preceded  fermentation.  The  tank  took  10  days  to  ferment  followed  by  post  fermentation  maceration  of  14  days.  The  must  was  then  transferred  to  stainless  steel  tanks  for  malolactic  fermentation  before barrel ageing. Aged in 225L French oak barrels for 22 months. 40% new. Coopers – Demptos, Boutes, Tarensaud, Sylvain.

Winemaker

Name - Jozua Joubert

Winery

Warwick Estate is a family-owned and run winery. From 1771 til 1902, Warwick Wine Farm was known as the farm ‘De Goede Sukses’. After the Anglo Boer war in 1902, Colonel William Alexander Gordon, Commanding Officer of the Warwickshire regiment decided against returning to England and bought the farm. He renamed it ‘Warwick’ as a tribute to his regiment and the rest, as they say, is history. Warwick was purchased on April 1st 1964 by Stan Ratcliffe after an extensive search for the best ‘terroir’ in the Cape. It was in 1986 that the first Warwick Trilogy was released - a Bordeaux style blend which has since become one of the flagships of the South African Wine Industry. Warwick has won many accolades over the years and was featured for a second time in Wine spectators’ wines of the year.