Quinary
A complex nose of spice, ripe berries and blackberries with slight forest floor earthy tones. Mouth filling fruit and elegant oak flavours, juicy tannins and lingering after taste.
3,270 Ft 750 ml
8 in stock
| Weight | 1.5 kg |
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| Colour | red |
| Style | |
| Évjárat |
| Region | Overberg, South Africa |
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| Grape Varieties | 53% Cabernet Sauvignon 27% Merlot 12% Cabernet Franc 5% Petit Verdot 3% Malbec |
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| Alcohol Percentage | 14.5 % |
| Ph | 3.61 |
| Acidity | 5.5 g/L |
| Serve temperature | 16-18 °C |
| Litre Price (HUF) | HUF 7267 / Litre |
| Awards | John Platter Wine Guide 2020 - 91 Points, 4,5 Stars Top 100 SA wines - Double Gold |
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| Aggregated Critic Score | 91 / 100 |
| Average User Rating | 3.9 Stars |
In the Cellar
All grapes were hand picked in small lug boxes pre cooled to 5°and sorted twice before a pure yeast culture was inoculated. The juice was pumped over the skins 3-5 times per day for 5 days. Once fermentation was complete, the wine was drained of the primary lees and transferred to a resting tank. Malolactic fermentation and a brief settling period preceded the wine to a combination of 225 litre barrels of French oak (25% first fill the rest second third and fourth fill.) The wine spent between 12 – 14 months in barrel before bottling and labelling.
About the winery: Raka
Raka Winery was named after the beloved fishing boat of Piet Dreyer, proprietor of Raka wines. Raka stems from the Afrikaans poem by N.P. van Wyk Louw, about an African tribe being threatened by Raka, half man half beast and as black as the night. Piet took this name as his brand when he ventured, with equal passion, into winemaking - hence the slogan: born of the sea, guided by the stars, blessed by the earth.
The Overberg Region
The main viticultural areas in these cool southerly climes are the districts of Elgin, Overberg, Walker Bay and Cape Agulhas, which encompass exciting newer wards such as Elim, Klein River and Malgas. The high-lying cool-climate Elgin district lies cradled in an inland plateau, situated at an altitude of 200—1 000 m and surrounded by the ancient sandstone Hottentots Holland mountains, where medium-structured, often ferruginous soils developed from Devonian Bokkeveld shale parent material. Sauvignon Blanc, Chardonnay, Riesling, Pinot Noir, Merlot and Shiraz do particularly well in this late ripening zone. Longer ripening produces grapes that hold a broad spectrum of flavours which results in wines of character showing exceptional purity and density of fruit, complexity and elegance.
