Wine Composition
100% Pinotage
Winemakers Comments
The Warwick harvest team picked the Pinotage fairly ripe, giving lashings of rich black cherries and ripe strawberry elements, as well as those tell-tale cured meat aromas that Pinotage delivers. The grapes spend as long as two weeks on skins, lending the wine a spectacular crimson color, as well as some powdery tannins. This delicious wine went through malolactic conversion, adding a velvety texture, and hints of milk chocolate. Finally, all components are aged in oak, adding a silky finish with hints of spice.
Technical Analysis
Alcohol Percentage
14%
Total Acidity
5.6 g/l
pH
3.59
Residual Sugar
2.9 g/l
Cellar Techniques
Grapes are picked at optimal ripeness and transported to the cellar and de-stemmed into tank. The wines spent between 7 and 14 days on the skins depending on the tannin structure, with three or four pump overs per day and then pressed to undergo malolactic fermentation in tank. After completion the wine was aged for 14 months with various types of oak used, none new, before blending and a light filtration and bottling in June 2020
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.
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