Bright deep youthful red colour. Dark pepper like spices and blueberry fruit nose with a lovely fynbos, indigenous herbal aspect. Big, complex fruit loaded palate restrained with lovely acidity and fine tannins. Lingering finish. Delicious with a slow roasted pork belly and a match for some sweetness and spice too as it’s quite a bold, but fine wine. Drink 2024 to 2035.
Handpicking into 20 kg crates. Destemming and gentle crushing directly into small 2 ton open top fermentation tanks with 10% whole bunches. Spontaneous natural yeast fermentation @ max. 30°C with the cap of skins punched down manually 1 - 3 times a day for 14 days. 1/3 whole bunch fermented for 1 month in oak foudre. Wine drained directly to barrels together with single pressing from traditional basket press. Malolactic fermentation in the barrel. 30% new fine grained, slow toasted small French oak was used in the first year and old 700L oak in the second year. Time in barrel 20 months with only 2 gentle rackings. This wine was bottled unfined and unfiltered by hand
Winemaker : David Trafford
Winemaker : David Trafford
With an international reputation for excellence, the South African De Trafford Winery is situated on the beautiful Mont Fleur farm set at the top of a dramatic valley above Stellenbosch, 380m up between the Stellenbosch and Helderberg mountains.
