A medium to full bodied Pinotage with a deep red colour. A complex Pinotage with plum and red berry flavours well intergrated with the oak aromas. A balanced wine that could be enjoyed now or age in the bottle for a few years longer. In summer to go with seafood or light meat dishes. It also goes well with any red meat, pasta and spicy food.

Grape Variety	Pinotage
Climate	In general a very cool and dry growing as well as ripening season. December being the only hot month and March had an above average rainfall. Because of the cool ripening we had a very even and slow ripening period with good sugar, colour and flavour development. In general a good year.
Soil	Clovelly & Hutton
Trellising	Mainly bush vines
Age of Vines	20 - 40 years old
Yield	6.5 Tons/ha (35.75hl/ha)
Vinification	Different systems of skin contact. Open fermenterd, roto tanks and fermentomatics. 4,5 days on skins at 25°C. After malolactic fermentation 6-8 months of French oak maturation.

Free SO2	45mg/l
Total SO2	72mg/l
pH	3.79
Total Acidity	5.3g/l
Residual Sugar	2.6g/l
Volatile Acidity	0.52g/l
Alcohol Volume	14.29%