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Grangehurst Pinotage 2012

Grangehurst Pinotage 2012

R440,00

Dark ruby colour with red berry and plummy fruitiness with vanilla, oak and spice. Full body on the palate with smooth, robust tannins.

There was not enough maiden vintage (1992) Pinotage to fill our stainless steel tank – so we filled the tank with Cabernet Sauvignon (8%). So started the Grangehurst “recipe” of blending between 8% and 14% Cabernet Sauvignon with our Pinotage. The Cabernet provides an interesting dimension of fruit, tannin and additional acidity – which contribute to the complexity and balance of Grangehurst Pinotage.

Specifications

SKU: GRA-003-1
Alcohol Volume: 14.8%
Sugar G/L: 2.8g/l
Winery: Grangehurst
Type of wine: Red Wine
Cultivar: Pinotage
Food Pairing: Italian, Meat, Seafood

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In the cellar

After destalking, sorting and crushing the grapes, the mash was fermented in open tanks for 5 and 6 days on the skins. The cap of skins was punched down and mixed with the juice 4 to 6 times per day to ensure optimum extraction of colour, tannin and flavours. The basket pressed wine was blended with the free-run wine in stainless steel tanks before being transferred to small oak barrels. The malolactic fermentation occurred in tanks and barrels. This wine was clarified according to the settling and racking method, which does not involve the use of any fining agents, centrifuges or filters – a natural, unhurried method of clarifying wine. The wine from this Pinotage vineyard was matured in oak barrels and then blended with four barrels of Cabernet Sauvignon. The wines from the two Pinotage vineyards were barrel matured separately and then blended together with four barrels of Cabernet Sauvignon. The wines spent an average of 21 months in 225 litre French (88%) and American (12%) oak barrels. After racking and blending, the wine was stored in a stainless steel tank before being bottled using our gentle gravity flow filling system. The wine flowed from the elevated bottling tanks through a cartridge filter to the hand filler and into the bottles. This was the only stage during the entire winemaking process that the wine was filtered.

In the vineyard

Selected from prime vineyard sites in Stellenbosch viz. Firgrove/Helderberg and Simonsberg. The southerly summer sea-breezes that blow over the cool waters of False Bay contribute greatly to the quality of the grapes from these vineyards. The Pinotage grapes were harvested on the 26th and 27th of January 2012 at sugar levels of 25.5º Balling. The yield in 2012 was around 3 tons per hectare of optimally ripe, quality grapes – small berries with good colour and concentration. The Pinotage grapes were harvested on the 3rd of February (Firgrove/Helderberg) and 11th of February (Simonsberg).

Ageing

21 months

Cultivar

89% Pinotage; 11% Cabernet Sauvignon

Food Pairing

Enjoy this wine with fine cuisine such as seared tuna, tagliatelle carbonara, bobotie or springbok pie.

About the Wine Estate

Grangehurst is a boutique red wine cellar on the slopes of the Helderberg Mountain in Stellenbosch, South Africa. It is a family business that began in 1992 and specialises in the production of handcrafted red wines and a dry rosé, all made using traditional and sustainable winemaking practices. They harvest approximately 80 tons of red wine grape varieties and produce around 60 000 bottles per vintage. Their hands-on approach, years of experience, and uncompromising attention to detail ensure that only the highest quality wines are bottled under the Grangehurst label. Grangehurst's winemaker Jeremy Walker has crafted his wines from Grangehurst since 1992. Jeremy sources the finest grapes from the Stellenbosch region, and strives for every vintage to be made the age old way – using methods that are handcrafted, traditional, and unhurried.

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