🇿🇦 Bellevue Reserve Pinotage 2022

This is our richest, most powerful expression of South Africa’s national heritage grape, made from selected parcels of fruit from various older Pinotage blocks. A sleekly muscular wine with dense, concentrated fruit flavours polished by French oak.

TASTING NOTE

Rich and concentrated with violet and cedarwood perfume leading to bold flavours of sweet-sour raspberry and maraschino cherry with a savoury umami undertone, supported by dense, fine-grained tannins with a clean, lingering finish. Calls for seriously well-aged red meat or the finest stinky cheeses.

IN THE VINEYARD

A selection of the best parcels of fruit from old vineyards, all irrigated. Most vintages, grapes from a vineyard planted in 1996 are chosen. Situated on an eastern slope with a north-south row orientation, these bush vines flourish in decomposed granite and shale soils.

IN THE CELLAR

The grapes were cold soaked for four days before inoculation. Fermentation took place in tanks with three daily aerated pump-overs. After alcoholic fermentation, the skins were pressed, the wine was settled and racked off the lees. It underwent spontaneous malolactic fermentation in 300-liter French oak barrels (50% new, 50% second fill) and matured for 22 months.

ANALYSIS

Alc: 15.11% | pH: 3.38 | RS: 1.9g/l | TA: 6.3g/l

ACCOLADES

Platter’s 2024 – 41⁄2 Stars
Gilbert & Gaillard International Challenge 2024 – Double Gold Michelangelo Awards 2024 - Gold
Tim Atkin Report 2024 – 90 Points

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