Description

After pressing the wine is transferred into 45-year-old conical wooden casks
that do not impart any wooden flavours. The age and the saturation of the wooden staves
also make for a very slow reaction between the wine and oxygen. After 11 months on the
lees the wine is racked to another concrete tank for an additional month to settle clean
and 2 weeks prior to bottling we add 65mg/Litre of sulphur and bottle the wine from the
fine lees.
NOTES | Tinta Barocca is a grape that carries the soil into the bottle, it is a great
communicator of terroir. The grape has had a longstanding relationship with the
Swartland and the spicy herbal aromatics and dark purple plum like fruit carries over into
a very tight and compressed core of the wine. As mentioned before the tannins of Tinta
Barocca have very much the same behaviour as those of Nebbiolo and proper ageing is
required.
Historically we have referenced that Tinta Barocca might be the most significant red
variety of the historical plantings to transport the terroir and typicity of a site to bottle.
Fifteen years on and a great vintage later, we finally managed to produce the wine we
believed we could achieve with this vineyard and variety. It was also our smallest harvest
ever from this vineyard. The earthy, graphite aromas extend into cedarwood and lead-
pencil aromatics, coated by ripe plum and purple-fruit aromas. This wine just sits at the
perfect level of ripeness and definition.