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TASTING NOTE

Heightened aromatics of rose petals, musk, ginger, and incense embellish fruit notes of fig, citrus, lychee, and gooseberry. Skin contact and naturally low acidity give a silken texture. Fermentation on juice solids with indigenous yeast and in ceramic eggs, and old oak builds complexity without distracting from varietal purity and exoticness.

FOOD IDEAS

Orange, duck and mint rice paper rolls with hoisin dipping sauce or a salad of tofu, aubergine and beluga lentils with chemoula.

DRINK

Now and over the next 10 years.

VINEYARD

Vineyard: Flowstone

Location: Forest Grove

Soils: Forest Grove deep lateritic gravel loams over clay

Aspect: north westerly

Viticulture: Flowstone owned and operated

Harvest: 28^th February 2022

WINEMAKING

The deep, dusty rose gold colouration of the berries is a sure sign that the Gewürztraminer is ready to harvest, as exotic rose petals and spice aromas pervade the vineyard. After the hand harvest, the whole bunches are gently pressed to extract juice for fermentation in 400 litre ceramic eggs and 600 litre demi muid oak. Some intact bunches are added to the egg ferments to infuse wild berry-skin notes into the developing wine. The wine remains in the same vessels for ten months, with occasional stirring to suspend yeast lees, build texture, and freshen the maturing wine.

The wine was minimally fined, filtered and bottled by hand, under screwcap in late December 2022.

WINE ANALYSIS

Alcohol: 13.5 % vol Standard Drinks: 8.0 pH:3.54 Acidity: 5.6 g/ L Residual Sugar: 0.23g/ L