Amnesty

Amnesty is ideal to be enjoyed on its own in winter or slightly chilled during summer evenings and will go well if paired with charcuterie or breads and hard cheeses.

Well drained loam and red sand mix on a broken hardpan layer. Mourvèdre, Grenache, Syrah and Carignan from 12 year old trellised, irrigated vineyards, Spruitdrift area, Olifants River, West Coast, South Africa.

The free run juice was racked off the pulp and after pressing the wine components were racked to old 300L French oak barrels in which it matured for 12 months. The wine was racked from the barrels and blended two weeks before bottling unfined and very lightly filtered.

The grapes were hand picked in the morning. The wine was fermented and aged in separate batches. A portion of the Syrah grapes were destemmed and others were left to ferment as whole bunches. All fermentations were natural in open fermenters. Pump overs and punch downs were performed twice daily to daily during the end of the fermentation.

Cape Rock Wines is situated between the towns of Vredendal and Klawer 300km north from Cape Town and 30 km inland from Doringbaai on the West Coast of South Africa. We grow a variety of red and white grapes such as Syrah Grenache Mourvèdre Carignan Cabernet Sauvignon Grenache Blanc Roussanne Marsanne Viognier and Colombard. The vineyards are located on a single 11-hectare farm just above the banks of the Olifants river floodplain.