Chapters Stellenbosch Cabernet Sauvignon

Delicious on its own, served slightly chilled or will pair beautifully with charcuteries.

This Cabernet Sauvignon is from an old vineyard planted in 2001 in the Polkadraai ward of Stellenbosch. Growing on decomposed granite, sandy loam soils with a high fraction of coffe stone gravel.

The wine matured in barrel for 22 months with four racking's to help clarify the wine. The Wine was bottled without fining or filtration.

The grapes were hand harvested into small grape crates and placed in cold storage overnight. The following day the fruit was bunch sorted, then destemmed followed by berry sorting before being transferred to stainless steel tanks for fermentation. There was an initial cold soak of 5 days before the cooling was turned off and the wine started fermentation naturally. Two pump-overs a day were implemented for extraction. The wine spent a total of 18 days on the skins. The wine went to barrel for molalactic fermentation. Small 225L French oak barrels were used, 15% being new and the balance older barrels.

Miles Mossop Wines burst onto the scene in 2004 when the first wines were made: Max 2004 and Saskia 2004. Max is a blend of Cabernet Sauvignon Merlot Petit Verdot and more recently Malbec and Saskia a blend of Chenin blanc Viognier and more recently Clairette blanche. Later in 2009 a third wine was introduced the Kika 2009 a botrytised wine made in the Noble Late Harvest style from 100% Chenin blanc.