Directors Reserve White

Best served with creamy seafood dishes or grilled white fish.

The soils are Oakleaf formed from decomposed granite with colluvial sandstone. With a high fraction of gravel and friable granite. South and South-West aspects ranging from 360 to 540 meters above sea level. The vines cropped between 7 and 10 tons per hectare. The grapes were hand-picked at optimal flavour ripeness at sugars between 22.5 and 23.5 brix and acidities of 6 g/l to 8.5 g/l.

After fermentation the barrels were topped and left on the lees for 9 months with regular lees stirring. The wine was blended in November, stabilised, filtered and bottled soon after. The wine spent a total of 9 months in barrel.

The grapes were de-stemmed and crushed and pressed immediately in our inert press. The press juice and free run juice were kept separate and settled overnight, before the clean juice was racked off. Only the free run juice from the best blocks is used in this wine. The juice was then inoculated and sent to 400L barrels for fermentation. All the barrels used were French oak of which 29 % was new.

The beautiful Tokara Wine and Olive Estate is situated in the historic Western Cape region just outside the town of Stellenbosch and is framed by vineyards and olive groves. The estate is a popular destination for wine, food and art enthusiasts.