Merlot

Italian dishes, grilled chicken, charcuterie or roast pork.

Kloovenburg's vineyards lie on the slopes around Kasteelberg in the Swartland, with soils including Malmesbury schist, loam and Hutton. The producer's public material does not currently isolate the 2023 Merlot block.

The wine is then racked from the lees and given a low dose of sulphur. The wine spends a total of 10 months in the barrel before it is blended and bottled.

All grapes are handpicked during the early morning hours, then crushed, destemmed and directly transferred to a stainless-steel fermenter, taking extra care to remove all the green stems, in order to reduce the green flavour as far as possible. Fermentation takes place in closed - top stainless-steel fermenters. Extraction is obtained by regular pump overs. After fermentation is completed, the wine is left on the skins for another seven days and then pressed to Neutral oak French barrels. Malolactic bacteria are inoculated, and malolactic fermentation is completed in the barrel.

Kloovenburg is a family-owned Swartland wine estate on the slopes of Kasteelberg near Riebeek Kasteel, farmed by the du Toit family since 1956. Explore Kloovenburg wines from the Swartland, with Shiraz at the heart of a range shaped by schist soils, Mediterranean varieties and the distinctive conditions of the Kasteelberg.