La Dolce Vita

This Cabernet Sauvignon will complement any strong cheeses but will be exceptional with steaks, ribs or poultry. Just about everything like with most other wine tasting notes out there!!! HA HA!!!

Grapes are harvested in typical Amarone style to adhere to this classical Italian version of winemaking but focussing on Stellenbosch’s king of the grapes, Cabernet Sauvignon, rather than Corvina to put a South African stamp on this 30 year old Bottelary vineyard.

Barrel maturation of 24 months in new French oak barrels followed by bottle ageing of at least 3 years before release.

Grapes are picked between 20 and 22 Balling to equate to a potential alcohol of more or less 11%. It is packed on specially made bamboo racks, reminiscent of the first Amarone drying techniques and left for minimum of 2 weeks to dry, shrivel and ripen. After crushing, it is fermented in open top fermenters and malolactic fermentation is also completed on the skins. Gentle basket pressing oozes out the final essence.

Think of it this way: many many thousands of moons, ago – the best wines of the past were made by normal craftsmen going out into the forest and picking wild berries - grapes and vinifying some of the most precious art the world has ever seen or drunk. Are we not overthinking or overcomplicating wine so very often? Inspired by those winemakers of the distant past and looking at the future of the South African wine industry and her renegade young guns receiving great international recognition, we decided to put our art into small bespoke batches of ArtiSons wines, each uniquely sculpted true to nature and true to vine.