Pella Verlatenkloof Merlot

Beef, Cheese, Cured Meats, Duck, Roast Vegetables, White Meat.

Hand-harvested, sorted and de-stemmed. Old dry land bush vines, in a once forgotten little valley, now revived, offering highly concentrated fruit; The name ‘Verlatenkloof’, meaning ‘desolate pass/valley’ in Afrikaans. North-facing slope. Yielding less than 3 tons per hectare.

Aged for 12 months in predominately French oak barrels.

Harvested periodically to ensure fermentation occurs on skins with a ripe tannin structure. Cold soak for ten days at 8’C and fermented up to a maximum of 25’C. Manual punch downs are carried out on a daily basis until fermented dry. Manual Basket press is used.

“Super Single Vineyards focus on the production of handcrafted wines from specially selected single vineyards throughout the Western Cape and the newly allocated Sutherland-Karoo region. Our pursuit for the finest fruit is never at an end.”