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Meerlust Cabernet Sauvignon 1986 Print E-mail

 

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SOIL TYPE

Decomposed granite mixed with clay

VINIFICATION

The juice was allowed approximately 10 days skin contact. After the first fermentation in open steel tanks, the wine underwent secondary malo-lactic fermentation. Matured for 18 months in New French oak, followed by 24 months bottle maturation.

TASTING NOTES

Elegant, well structured, with a long lingering finish.

ANALYSIS

Extract : 32.2g/l
Residual sugar : 0.0 g/l
pH : 3.54
Total acidity : 6.5 g/l
Alcohol : 12.23 %

IDEALLY SERVED AT

18° - 20° C

COMPLEMENTS

Roast meat and game