 De Trafford Merlot MAGNUM 1,5l. Südafrika 2005
TASTING NOTES
Deep true red colour. Bright red berry and cherry fruit with beguiling subtle earthiness, nuts and spices. Youthful focused fruit on the palate with plenty of fine tannins on the mid palate and a classic long, dry finish.
Probably best between 2008 and 2014. Ideal with rich and creamy pasta dishes and various meat dishes.
Handpicking into 20 kg lugboxes. Destemming and gentle crushing directly into small 2 ton open top fermentation tanks. Spontaneous natural yeast fermentation @ max. 30 deg. with the cap of skins punched down manually 1-3 times a day for 11 days. Wine drained directly to barrels together with single pressing from traditional basket press.
All our red wines undergo malolactic fermentation in the barrel. 35% new French oak was used from high quality coopers. Time in barrel 19 months, which included several rackings to gradually clarify the wine and assist maturation.
The wine was lightly fined (with 2 fresh egg whites per barrel) and bottled unfiltered by hand on the property.
Bottling date : 18/10/05. Production : 870 cases.
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