MCC Brut Rosé

Veal, Pork, Game (deer, venison), Rich fish (salmon, tuna etc), Vegetarian, Poultry

The Pearly Gates Farm, owned by JHN Hanekom, produces the Pinot Noir grapes used for our Pearly Gates Pinot Noir. The vineyard consists of two neighboring vineyards on 500 meters above sea level in the Upper Hemel and Aarde Valley. Complexity is already reached in the vineyard by having half of the surface planted with east west row direction and half with north south row direction. The vineyard was planted in 2003 with 7 different clones on loam rich top soil, situated on clay and also areas with decomposed granite, resulting in natural low pH and high acidity. Three of these clones are Champagne clones and we used to harvest this with the grapes from the whole vineyard, until 2019, when we decided to harvest these clones earlier to make our first Upper Hemel and Aarde Brut Rose Methode Cap Classique.

Aged for 6 months on the lees before bottling for fermentation in bottle in September 2019. We kept the wine on the lees in bottle for 14 months and degorged with zero dosage!

The grapes where pressed whole bunch to extract very little color, after this the juice was fermented in neutral barrels

Kruger Family Heritage dates back to the early 1700’s with the arrival of the first settlers to South Africa. Our wines are made from the best grapes grown in Stellenbosch Region matured in small oak barrels for 12–24 months.