The wine has a rich and inviting nose with hints of citrus, apricot, peach, toasted nuts, and spices. The palate is powerful and packed with fruit weight, yellow apple, toasted almonds, and freshly baked brioche with a stone fruit medley.
Fresh acidity adds balance and length to the finish. Ready to enjoy now but will develop further and reward careful cellaring over the next three to five years
Fresh acidity adds balance and length to the finish. Ready to enjoy now but will develop further and reward careful cellaring over the next three to five years
From four specifically, selected Stellenbosch sites, two on the Helderberg, that bring freshness and acidity, and one in Vlottenburg on a South-Easterly slope adding a citrus lift and the fourth one from Warwick on a warmer West facing slope of the Simonsberg, adding textural and structural elements and a floral lift, to the wine.
All four vineyards are picked separately at dierent ripeness levels to add complexity and texture to the final blend. All lots are whole bunch pressed and juice allowed to clear naturally before transferred to 228L Burgundian French oak barrels, for fermentation in 33% new oak, 19% second fill, 17% third fill, 21% forth fill and 10% in neutral oak.
Barrels are rolled once a month for a total ageing of eleven months before selection process and blending followed by a light filtration and bottling in February 2023. Released in July 2023.
Winemaker : JD Pretorius
All four vineyards are picked separately at dierent ripeness levels to add complexity and texture to the final blend. All lots are whole bunch pressed and juice allowed to clear naturally before transferred to 228L Burgundian French oak barrels, for fermentation in 33% new oak, 19% second fill, 17% third fill, 21% forth fill and 10% in neutral oak.
Barrels are rolled once a month for a total ageing of eleven months before selection process and blending followed by a light filtration and bottling in February 2023. Released in July 2023.
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.
