Cabernet Sauvignon
Blackberry fruit aromas with tea-leaf and cedar notes. The palate is rich and polished with dark fruit and mocha flavours and a finely balanced acidity. Long finish with the fine tannins typical of a Jonkershoek Valley wine.
4,794 Ft 750 ml
22 in stock
| Weight | 1.5 kg |
|---|---|
| Colour | red |
| Style | |
| Évjárat |
| Region | Cape West Coast, |
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In the Cellar
The grapes for this wine are from 4 different Cabernet vineyards and our best Malbec, Cabernet Franc and Petit Verdot vineyards, all at a mix of different elevations. Although all are on the decomposed granite soils typical of the hillsides in Jonkershoek, the soil textures vary quite a lot and that, together with the differences in elevations and clones, gives a variety of different flavour profiles to the grapes. The Cabernet Franc grapes were picked into small lug boxes and cooled overnight to about 14 degrees before being hand-sorted and crushed into small open-top fermentation vats. After being cold-soaked for a couple of days, some of the musts were inoculated with a mix of domestic and imported Bordeaux yeast. About 405 underwent fermentation with the natural yeasts. The fermentations were hand punched-down every 4 hours for the first half of fermentation and every 6-8 hours until dry. At dryness, the wine was basket-pressed and racked to barrel for malo-lactic fermentation and barrel maturation. Only 300l French oak was used, of which about 30% were new. Bottled without fining and no filtration after 20 months barrel maturation.
About the winery: Stark-Condé
Kansas City-born graphic designer José Conde turned his hand to wine more than two decades ago, and continues to produce some of SA’s most classic cabernets from this scenically spectacular property in Stellenbosch's Jonkershoek, in the family since father-in-law Hans-Peter Schröder settled here in the late 1980s.
