Madach Cape 'hunting' Red 2019

Bright ruby red. Nose is compact with brooding red fruit and spicy wood. The palate is round and supple with red fruit flavour accented by spicy wood. It is a deeply satisfying wine.

Pinotage from Knolfontein farm in Voor Perdeberg- off the worlds biggest pinotage block- bush vine not irrigated glen rose soil ( decomposed shale): Carignan from Welgugund in Wellington, 45 year old bush vines on decomosed granite soil, grenache the same, inrs around 12 years old. Durif and Tempranillo are from Akkerdal farm in Franschhoek off a sandy riverine soil- irrigated. Young vines- vsp

2018 was a drought year- very low moisture but had a reletively cool reipening season which has yielded fruit with good flavour concentration. As the vinneyards are in 3 very different sites harvest began last week in jan with Pinotage and finished with the tempranillo and durif which were picked on the same day in early april

the pinotage was crushed and fermented in a rototank before being decanted into oak barrels, durif, Tempranillo and Grenache were are destemmed and crushed into small open fermented with approx 10% whole bunches. Natural yeast has been used . We did 4- 6 punchdowns a day. Pressed into barrel The carignan was fermented in an open fermenter and aged in a flex cube with french oak staves. Wine was assembled in Feb 2019 and held in tank for 6 months before being bottled

Pressed into barrel The carignan was fermented in an open fermenter and aged in a flex cube with french oak staves. Wine was assembled in Feb 2019 and held in tank for 6 months before being bottled

robust dishes influenced by the southern french and spanish kitchen such as ratatouille, braised beef shanks with orange and green olives, various empanadas etc