Wine Composition

100% Cabernet Franc

Winemakers Comments

Floral, perfumed, aromas of mulberries and green coffee beans, lavender, thyme, and cassis. The palate is light, yet well structured with grippy tannins and notes of fennel bulb, cassis, and thyme and dark chocolate. The coolness of the vintage shine in all aspects of this wine and will allow for rewarding cellaring over the next 7-10 years.  

Awards

Technical Analysis

Alcohol Percentage

14.09%

TA

6.2 g/l

pH

3.45

RS

2.3 g/l

Cellar Techniques

Produced from a single vineyard planted in 2008. Hand harvested, de-stemmed and sorted into tank. This block spent 21 days on the skins, with two to three pump overs per day and then pressed to undergo malolactic fermentation in barrel and tank. After completion, the wine was racked to French oak barrels (33% new, 43% second fill, 14% third fill and 10% fourth fill) for a period of 21 months before a strict selection process, where only the best barrels are selected. These barrels are then blended and filtered before bottling in June 2021. 

Winemaker

Name - JD Pretorius

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.