Journey’s End V5 Cabernet Franc 2021

In the cellar

The grapes were processed immediately after picking early in the morning, they were hand sorted and destemmed before filling the 5000L truncated open top casks for fermentation. Fermentation in these vessels tend to finish quickly lasting 10-15 days between 18 – 26˚C. During fermentation, suspended dry skins are gently punched back into the ferment ensuring gentle tannin extraction. The wine is then pressed off the skins and undergoes malolactic fermentation as well as a 14-month barrel maturation period in second fill French oak. This wine required no stabilizing and is vegan friendly, Filtered and bottled on 13 February 2023.