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| Syrah |
| Dates harvested: | 16-23 April 2016
Harvested by hand with extremely careful selection |
| Sugar level (Brix): | 20-22 |
| Alcohol: | 12.4% |
| Total Acidity: | 5.3g/l |
| pH: | 3.62 |
| Vinification: | 94% destemmed without crushing, cold soaked for 6 to 8 days. Fermented in open stainless steel vats with pumping-over and hand plunging, total period of maceration for 25 to 29 days. Aged in French (22% new) oak barriques for 22 months. Unfined and bottled after coarse filtration. |
| Date of Bottling: | 5 March 2018 |
| Bottles produced: | 2,617 |
| Remarks: | Very dry season again after the draught in 2015. Felt coolish in the vineyard through the year but the GDD is slightly higher than the average. Very low yield (less than 20hl/ha) resulted intensely fragrant yet elegant, linear shaped wine with obvious aging potential. |
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