De Trafford

Cabernet Sauvignon

Cabernet Sauvignon from Stellenbosch, South Africa

4.5

R490

Bottle size:

750 ml

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Attractive deep red colour. Dense red berry and nutty blackcurrant nose. Helderberg mountain intensity with finesse. Rich and complex. Soft, but substantial palate with polished tannins and the concentration you expect from prime Helderberg Mountain sites. Fruitcake, blackcurrant & herbal (fynbos) flavours carry through to a long finish. Complex and layered but needs time to refine and become more seamless.

Red Berries

Black Currant

Fruitcake

Herbal

100% destemming and crushing by hand directly into 2 ton open top fermentation tanks. Spontaneous natural yeast fermentation at max. 29ºC. including pre fermentation and post fermentation soaks with regular punch downs for up to 15 days, depending on each parcel. Wine drained directly to barrels, together with single pressing from traditional basket press for malolactic fermentation. 30% new French oak was used from high quality coopers.

Ideal winter conditions with sufficient rain and cold units up until the end of August 2021. Excellent budbreak about 7 days later than usual resulting in nice even growth. Early spring was cool and dry and then became cooler and wetter with 123mm in October. This provided vigorous canopies and high fungal disease pressure which we managed well. A very hot and dry January was quite a shock to many vineyards, but our vines in deep soils managed this period well. February was cooler with a little relieving rain. Slightly higher yields, but all in good balance and picked in perfect condition. Harvest date: 4/3/22 & 17/3/22 @ 23,3 & 25 balling

De Trafford

A small family winery at the end of the Upper Blaauwklippen Road in the mountains above Stellenbosch South Africa. Established in 1992 by architect David Trafford & artist wife Rita with the focus on high end red wines of great intensity & longevity using minimal intervention production methods.