Blackenbrook Vineyard

After ageing for twelve months in French oak barrels, the wine seduces with its attractive fruit sweetness and texture, the mouth-filling body and its excellent depth of red forest fruit and spice.

The wine is built for ageing and we recommend to enjoy it between now and 2010.

·    Single Vineyard: Home block
·    Moutere clay soil with a layer of sandy loam
·    Focus on healthy soil and strong plants

·    Close planting: 3780 vines/ha
·    All vines grafted on site
·    9 Clones: UCD 5, UCD 6, 10/5, 22, 114, 115, 667, 777, Abel

·    Excellent growing season with a hot and dry summer stretching right into autumn.
·    Hand-picked and hand-sorted on 31 March 2006 with 24.6 Brix

·    5 days cold maceration
·    hand plunged, gentle press cycle
·    Gravity-fed from press area to main winery
·    aged for 12 months in new and two-year old French oak barriques
·    gentle fining with egg whites
·    Minimal pumping
·    Cross-flow filtration

·    Bottled on 1 August 2007 under the revolutionary Diam Cork
·    14.5% Alcohol