Jean Roi Rosé

Serve it ideally with light dishes such as seafood or a delicious salad.

“Late, slow and steady” would be the best way to describe the 2021 vintage. The preceding winter was cold and wet, resulting in good dormancy and healthy dam levels prior to the growing season. The cool weather continued into spring which in turn resulted in a delayed but relatively even bud break, flowering and fruit set. The Shiraz and Grenache vines ripened at similar times to the previous vintage. The usually hot month of February was uncharacteristically cool, however, and this slowed the ripening of the Cinsaut quite substantially. Overall, an exceptional vintage which promises to deliver outstanding wines.

The wine spent 5 months on the fine lees in a combination of stainless steel tanks (78%) and old French oak puncheons (22%) before being blended and bottled.

This premium rosé is made in the same dry style as the famous rosés of Provence, France. Grapes were hand-picked into lug boxes and transported to the cellar in refrigerated trucks. Great care was taken to minimise the amount of colour extraction from the grapes through gentle pressing, before overnight settling. Fermentation by indigenous yeast occurred spontaneously in 50% of the blend.

Anthonij Rupert Wyne was founded on the farm L’Ormarins in Franschhoek. Originally owned by the late Anthonij Rupert who passed away in 2001 the farm was eventually taken over by his brother Johann Rupert in 2003 and the brand named after him. It was Johann Rupert who constructed a state-of-the-art winemaking facility catapulting the farm into a prestigious wine estate and the beginnings of what is now a sprawling enterprise. The focus is on terroir specific wines and therefore the ranges are made from a number of sites. Each site offers optimum varietal specific growing conditions allowing Anthonij Rupert Wyne to adhere to the requirements of their different brands.