Carlo Pinotage 2022

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Awards

• Double Gold Veritas Awards 2025
• Top 10 Winemag Prescient Pinotage Report 2024
• Double Gold Gilbert & Gaillard 2024
• Double Gold National Wine Challenge 2024
• Double Gold Vitis Vinifera 2024
• Gold Concours Mondial de Bruxelles 2024
  
• Double Gold Veritas Awards 2025

Tasting Notes

VARIETALS: Pinotage 100% STYLE: Full bodied, ruby red colour, aromas of fresh cherries and hints of spice accompanied by red fruit and mocha on the palate.

SOIL: Predominantly Tukulu and Dresden soils on a base of shale.

AGE OF VINES: 23 years.

VINIFICATION: 7 days on skins in open fermenters at 25°C.

BARREL AGING: 16 months in 300 liter French oak barrels.

CLIMATE: Low rainfall, moderate ripening season with cool nights and warm, dry days during picking.

GRAPES: Smaller berries, with excellent colour and flavour intensity, harvested at optimum phenolic ripeness.

OPTIMUM DRINKING: This excellent 2022 vintage will peak from mid 2024 to 2029 when tertiary aromas will start to develop.

FOOD SUGGESTION: Game, beef and lamb dishes.

Analysis

Alcohol : 13.73 % I RS : 2.6 g/l I pH : 3.74 I Total Acid: 5.7 g/l