White Wine

Sauvignon Blanc 2017

Order Now	Product	SAUVIGNON BLANC	Vintage	2017
	Wine Description
	Date harvested	Date bottled	Date released	No bottles produced
	06 February 2017	05 June 2017	15 September 2017	3,257
	Wine Maker	Gerda Willers, La Vigne, Franschhoek
	Vinification	Cold fermentation, five to six hour skin contact before pressing and worked on reductively. Wine has been on lees until filtration (four to five months).
	Style & storage	Fruit driven with dominant tropical flavours. Wine can be stored up to four or five years.
	Alcohol	Residual sugar	Total Acidity	pH
	13.38 %	2.1 g/l	6.6 g/l	3.38
	General Comments	A fresh crisp wine with subtle tropical fruit aromas on the nose, citrus and melon coming to the fore. A refreshing wine with a soft mouth feel and a silky texture which is well balanced and showing complexity and a long clean finish. The wine will keep for a couple of years

Order Now	Product	Wooded Sauvignon Blanc	Vintage	2016
	Wine Description
	Date harvested	Date bottled	Date released	No bottles produced
	29 January 2016	02 December 2016	15 April 2017	779
	Wine Maker	Gerda Willers, La Vigne, Franschhoek
	Vinification	Five to six hour skin contact before pressing and worked on reductively. Fermentation in the barrel and batonage was carried out daily for a month after fermentation. Thereafter wine was left on lees prior to bottling.
	Style & storage	Fruit driven with influence from 10 months of contact in a used oak barrel. This wine can be stored up to four or five years.
	Alcohol	Residual sugar	Total Acidity	pH
	13.69 %	4.8 g/l	6.4 g/l	3.26
	General Comments	An interesting wooded sauvignon with floral notes on the nose, particularly elderberry, as well as hints of honey and spice. The palate picks up refreshing citrus and nutty flavours. A well balanced, yet complex wine with a soft buttery mouth feel