Warwick Estate Cabernet Franc 2021
Warwick Estate Cabernet Franc
Region: Stellenbosch, Costal Region, South Africa
Vintage: 2021
Bottle size: 75cl
Grape: Cabernet Franc
ABV: 14.5%
The nose bursts with violets and dried herbs, cassis, and dark chocolate followed on to the palate with notes of dark berries pomegranate, and cacao. The palate is structured around very fine-grained tannins, supported well by a dense core of fruit, and backed up by a fresh acid.
Produced from a single vineyard planted in 2008. Hand- harvested, de-stemmed, and sorted into tanks. This block spent 17 days on the skins, with two to three pump-overs per day, and then pressed to undergo malolactic fermentation. After completion, the wine was racked in French oak barrels (40% new, 30% second fill, and 30% third fill) for a period of 22 months before a strict selection process, where only the best barrels are used.
When people talk about the ‘history’ of a place, they think of the people who lived there and the personalities who built it. For Warwick Estate, ‘history’ began when the first title deed was issued for the land in 1771 and vines have been grown on the property for nearly two hundred years.
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