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2004/05 Tokara Red, Tokara, Stellenbosch, 14%

Our Price: £24.85

2004/05 Tokara Red, Tokara, Stellenbosch, 14%

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Grapes:
18%	Cabernet Sauvignon
73%	Merlot
9%	Petit Verdot

Awards :
90 points Wine Spectator "One of the Top Classics of the Future" Jancis Robinson MW
Food Matching Note :
Enjoy with roast lamb – or venison.
Tasting Note :
A dense, opaque ruby-plum hue, with a brick red edge. The nose shows promises of riches to come: warm fruit, elegant wood, and lovely refined aromas of fine red wine! The palate is dry, firm, yet silky, with underlying grip and tannins, heralding a long life. Notes of brambly fruit and cigar box add interest – the wine is a work-in-progress, developing slowly all the time.
Vinification Note :
The grapes originated from TOKARA’s premium vineyards on the slopes of the Simonsberg Mountain. The grapes were picked at optimal ripeness from the 7th March to the 10th April, destemmed, then passed across a sorting table for the removal of all unwanted material and then crushed directly into tanks for fermentation without the use of pumps. Crushed grapes were then fermented in stainless steel and wooden upright (foudre) fermenters. Pump-overs, delastage and punching down of the cap were implemented three times a day for extraction until fermentation was completed. The tanks were given maceration post fermentation if the quality warranted it, depending on tannin development. The wines were put to barrel for malo-lactic fermentation after which they were racked, sulphured and put back to barrel for a further maturation. The wines spent a total of twenty months in 61% new French oak and the rest being older French oak barriques. During the maturation the wines received five rackings all done barrel to barrel.

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