A medium to full bodied Pinotage with a meduim red colour. A complex Pinotage with cherry and red berry flavours well integrated with the oak flavour. 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	Hutton, Clovelly, Kroonstad
Trellising	Pinoatge bush vines
Age of Vines	20 years old
Yield	6.5 ton/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	76 mg/l
Total SO2	36 mg/l
pH	3.68
Total Acidity	5.8 g/l
Residual Sugar	2.3 g/l
Volatile Acidity	0.6 g/l
Alcohol Volume	14.5%