Syrah 'IRON'

• 100% Syrah
• Sourced from a parcel on the rolling hills outside of Malmesbury, rich, gravelly Koffieklip soils
• This exposed site is the earliest ripening of all of their Syrahs, and gives insight to the quality of the vintage ahead
• Hand harvested while the morning was still cool
• 100% whole cluster Syrah was foot crushed into open top 500L barrel, where hand punch downs took place to encourage natural and gentle extraction during the indigenous fermentation
• 4 weeks of maceration, then pressed to the same barrels that they were fermented in
• Aged for 12 months in 500L French oak barrels, 50% new, followed by another 10 months in 200L Foudre
• Bottled aged for 9 months prior to release

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