Syrah 'GRANITE'

• Syrah
• Sourced from Jakkalsfontein, a single vineyard planted in the decomposed Granitic soils of the Paardeberg
• Hand harvested on a cool early morning picking and transferred into 500L French oak open-top fermenters, whole-bunched
• Once crushed by foot, the indigenous fermentation process started and very gentle extraction was achieved by doing punch-downs by hand
• 28 day skin contact before being gravitationally drained and then pressed back into the same vessels for malolactic fermentation and further maturation
• Aged for 12 months in French oak 500L barrels of which 50% was new, followed by 10 months in 2000L Foudre
• Once bottled, the wine was aged for another 8 months before release

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