Sam
The Family
Sam
2018
This wine is a blend of 92% Cabernet Sauvignon, 5% Merlot and 3% Cabernet franc from some of the best vineyards around Stellenbosch.
The wine has a deep garnet colour with a brilliant ruby red rim. The nose has intense black berry fruit such as dark bramble berries, blackcurrant and dark cherries underpinned by brooding notes of cedar and tobacco leaf. The wine enters the palate of intense berry notes mirroring the palate. The mid-palate is smooth and textured and leads to dry emery paper tannins. The oak is beautiful balanced supporting the fruit and grape tannins and adding a touch of vanilla sweetness to mid-palate. The wine lingers on the palate for almost an eternity.
Food Pairing
Best served with rich red meat dishes or vegetarian options such as melanzane parmigiana or a tomato ragu.
R950.00
* This wine is available on request only. Please complete the form below to enquire about availability.
This wine is a blend of 92% Cabernet Sauvignon, 5% Merlot and 3% Cabernet franc from some of the best vineyards around Stellenbosch.
The vineyards are specially selected according to their age and site from various parts of Stellenbosch, mostly unirrigated and all low yielding (4 to 6 t/ha). This gives a pure expression of its environment in the wine. The grapes are ripened to peak maturity (between 23 and 25 degrees brix) before being hand harvested and delivered to the cellar and placed into a cold store overnight at 4 degrees Celsius.
After desteming the berries pass over a sorting table for the removal of all unwanted material. The berries then fall through a crusher and drop, via gravity, into small open wooden fermenters. Fermentation takes place by the yeast naturally occurring on the grape and can take anything up to14 days to complete. Extraction occurs through regular pump overs and punch downs.
Once fermentation has completed the wine may stay on the skins for an additional period of time which is dependent on the tannin development and ripeness, after which the wine is drained off and pressed in a vertical basket press.
Malolactic fermentation takes place in barrel after which the wine is racked and returned to barrel for further maturation. Maturation takes place in small 225-liter French barriques of which 51% is new and lasts for 22 months with regular racking’s. The wine received no fining or filtration before bottling.
Bottling
The wine was bottled in January 2020.
- pH: 3.47
- TA: 5.60 g/l
- RS: 2.0 g/l
- Alc: 13.5 % by vol.
Cabernet Sauvignon – Stellenbosch – Bottelary
| AREA: | Stellenbosch in the Bottelary Ward |
| ALTITUDE: | 200 metres above sea level |
| ASPECT: | North-West |
| ROW DIRECTION: | North-South |
| YEAR PLANTED: | 1988 |
| SOIL TYPE: | 75% Glenrosa & 25% Pinedene (Slate Origin) |
| TRAINING: | 5-wire vertical trellis |
| PRUNING: | Spur pruned |
| IRRIGATION: | None |
| PLANT DENSITY: | 3472 vines per hectare (1.2m X 2.4m spacing) |
| CROPPING: | 4 tons/ha or 25hl/ha |
Merlot – Stellenbosch – Bottelary
| AREA: | Stellenbosch in the Bottelary Ward |
| ALTITUDE: | 220 metres above sea level |
| ASPECT: | West facing |
| ROW DIRECTION: | North-South |
| YEAR PLANTED: | 1999 |
| SOIL TYPE: | Medium potential clay loam Tukulu soil |
| TRAINING: | 6-wire vertical trellis (double Perold) |
| PRUNING: | Spur pruned |
| IRRIGATION: | Supple- mental drip irrigation |
| PLANT DENSITY: | 5000 vines per hectare (1m X 2m spacing) |
| CROPPING: | average 6 to 8 tons/ha or 40 to 54 hl/ha |
Wine Enquiry
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