Waterkloof Circle Of Life Red 2021 - Waterkloof

It goes well with a meal, but this wine goes great with a rack of lamb seasoned with various herbs.

We harvest according to taste and find it important to spend a lot of time in the vineyards to see how the aromas develop. All grapes were picked by hand in small harvest boxes, sorted in the vineyards and brought to the cellar by our horses. To ensure that only the best berries are used, we also sort all grapes by hand in the winery. These were then filled into our wooden fermentation containers using our gravity system. The Rhône grapes were fermented as a whole bunch of grapes, and the Bordeaux grapes were destemmed. Fermentation began naturally, with the yeast present on the grapes to enhance the aromas prevailing in the vineyards. We also don't add sulfur at this stage. During the entire fermentation process, we gently pressed the grapes twice a day to slowly and gently extract the tannins. They spent about 30 days on the skins so that the tannins could be softened. This duration depends on taste. After the maceration time on the skins, we let the wine drain through gravity - still without pumping. The grape skins also fell into the basket press and were gently pressed to extract the last remnant of wine, aroma and color from the skins. The grape varieties were aged separately in French oak. 600L barrels for the Rhône grape varieties and 225L barrels for the Bordeaux grape varieties. Only 10% of the barrels were new to avoid a predominance of wood aromas in our wines. After 12 months in barrel, we blended Cabernet Franc (30%), Merlot (22%), Syrah (36%) and Petit Verdot (12%) and stored them in our wooden fermentation tanks for a further 5 months. This wine is unadorned and slightly filtered.

Allergy information: Contains sulfites