Aromas of dark berries, tobacco, plum and red berries. The palate is packed with finely textured tannins and supporting oak spice, cedarwood and pencil shavings, supported well by fresh acidity. Careful cellaring will be rewarded over the next 3 – 5 years.
Made up from 2 vineyards, one on a Northly Facing slope and the other on a South-Easterly slope, each component was harvested separately, de-stemmed and hand sorted into tank.
The wines spent between 14 and 21 days on the skins, depending on their tannin structure with two to three pump-overs per day. Once the fermentation is completed the wines are pressed to undergo malolactic fermentation in the barrel and tank.
After completion, the wine was racked to French oak barrels (38% new oak, 33%second fill, 20% third and 9% forth fill) for a period of 22 months. Components are blended and allowed to clarify naturally before filtration and bottling in May 2022.
Winemaker: JD Pretorius
The wines spent between 14 and 21 days on the skins, depending on their tannin structure with two to three pump-overs per day. Once the fermentation is completed the wines are pressed to undergo malolactic fermentation in the barrel and tank.
After completion, the wine was racked to French oak barrels (38% new oak, 33%second fill, 20% third and 9% forth fill) for a period of 22 months. Components are blended and allowed to clarify naturally before filtration and bottling in May 2022.
Winemaker: JD Pretorius
Warwick Estate is a family-owned and run winery. From 1771 til 1902, Warwick Wine Farm was known as the farm ‘De Goede Sukses’. After the Anglo Boer war in 1902, Colonel William Alexander Gordon, Commanding Officer of the Warwickshire regiment decided against returning to England and bought the farm.
He renamed it ‘Warwick’ as a tribute to his regiment and the rest, as they say, is history. Warwick was purchased on April 1st 1964 by Stan Ratcliffe after an extensive search for the best ‘terroir’ in the Cape.
It was in 1986 that the first Warwick Trilogy was released - a Bordeaux style blend which has since become one of the flagships of the South African Wine Industry. Warwick has won many accolades over the years and was featured for a second time in Wine spectators’ wines of the year.
He renamed it ‘Warwick’ as a tribute to his regiment and the rest, as they say, is history. Warwick was purchased on April 1st 1964 by Stan Ratcliffe after an extensive search for the best ‘terroir’ in the Cape.
It was in 1986 that the first Warwick Trilogy was released - a Bordeaux style blend which has since become one of the flagships of the South African Wine Industry. Warwick has won many accolades over the years and was featured for a second time in Wine spectators’ wines of the year.
