Description

AGEING | After pressing the wine is transferred into some 28 year old conical wooden

casks that do not impart any wooden flavours and the age and the saturation of the wooden

staves also make for a very slow reaction of the resultant wine with oxygen. The wine is

left on the lees for 11 months and then racked to another concrete tank for an additional

month to settle clean. Two weeks prior to bottling we add 60mg/Litre of sulphur and

bottle the wine from the fine lees.

NOTES | One of the most fascinating aspects of Cinsaut is the depth of texture and the

load of tannin that this big berry grape holds, for as a norm one will expect this level of

depth and texture and tannin on the smaller, berries varietals – but Cinsaut is a complete

enigma in this regard. The wine may hold massive volumes of bright-red fruit and lifted

aromatics; and upon smelling the wine the expectation is that it would be very soft on the

pallet – but then firm tannins are met.

The 2022 Pofadder displays delicate red fruit of great purity and linear qualities; there are

soft oriental spices and earthy aromas on the outer edges suggesting greater complexity in

the future. The same fruit and deeper earthy aspects carry through to the mouthfeel and

taste, which is a more serious style of Cinsaut. As with many 2022 wines, the tannins are

also remarkably smooth with softer acidity.