TOKARA Reserve Collection Syrah 2019

TASTING NOTES This wine displays a brilliant colour with a ruby red rim. The nose leads with notes of ripe plum, violet perfume and baking spice. The palate is classy and refined with rich dark fruit and a silky mid-palate. The wine leaves one with an appealing chalky finish and a hint of pepper spice. Food pairing: Grilled lamb cutlets with rosemary, venison stew or suckling pig.

Grapes are hand picked and loaded into a cold store where they are chilled down to approximately 6 degrees celsiul 25% of the grapes are first loaded whole bunch into the tandk.  The remainder of grapes were de-stemmed and crushed directly into tanks for fermentation without the use of pumps. There is first a period of cold maceration for up to 5 days before the fermentation starts spontaneously. Tje fermentation took place in stainless steel and wooden upright fermenters.

The wine were put to barrel for malolactic fermentation after which they were racked, suphured and put back to barrel for a further maturation. The wines spent a total of twenty months in 34% new French oak Demi Muid barrels and the rest being older French oak barriques. There are 3 minimal rackings during maturation only once at blending after 14 months when the wine was returned to barrel for turther maturation for up till 22 months.

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