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Kleine Zalze Vineyard Select Cabernet Sauvignon 2017

Tasting Notes

Winery: Kleine Zalze
Varietal: Cabernet Sauvignon
SKU: KLECAB2017 Categories: ,
Bottle Size: 750 ml
Kleine Zalze VS Cabernet Sauvignon 2017

$21.99

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Awards/Reviews

5 Stars 2020 Platter’s South African Wine Guide

Deliciously rich dark-berry fruit flavours are supported by black plum, dark chocolate & floral hints, robust tannin frame in 17 (95 pts). Shows great elegance & precision, benefits from less new oak than other sibling (40%, 18 months). Exceptional value, too.

Winemaker Notes

Most of the fruit for this wine was sourced from our own vineyards with a few selected parcels from other Stellenbosch vineyards. In 2017 we had a very dry winter season and warm dry conditions early in the growing season but slightly cooler weather in the run up to harvest. The drier than usual conditions resulted in smaller berries and with the cool weather in the later stages of ripening lead to good balance of fruit concentration and elegance with very little intervention required.

 

After careful selection in the vineyard the grapes were hand sorted at the winery ensuring only the best fruit was vinified. After de-stemming, the grapes were fermented in a combination of stainless-steel tanks and traditional open-top fermenters. We used a combination of “punch down” and “pump over” at different stages during fermentation for the best possible extraction and to get balance between flavour and tannin levels. Special care was taken not to over extract the wine and maintain density without compromising elegance. After primary fermentation the grapes were gently pressed and transferred to French oak barrels (40% new, 30% second-fill and 30 % third-fill) for 18 months before final blending took place.

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