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Tokara Red 2003

Bin No. TOKARARED

Price: £23.00

The grapes for this wine originated from TOKARA’s premium vineyards on the slopes of the Simonsberg Mountain. The grapes were picked at optimal ripeness from the 7th March to the 10th April, destemmed, then passed across a sorting table for the removal of all unwanted material and then crushed directly into tanks for fermentation without the use of pumps. Crushed grapes were then fermented in stainless steel and wooden upright (foudre) fermenters. The wines spent a total of twenty months in 61% new French oak and the rest being older French oak barriques. During the maturation the wines received five rackings all done barrel to barrel. The wine was bottled in January 2005 after a light egg white fining and without filtration.

The final wine, a blend of 18% Cabernet Sauvignon, 73% Merlot and 9% Petit Verdot, is a dense, opaque ruby-plum hue wine with a brick red edge. On the nose the wine shows promises of riches to come: warm fruit, elegant wood, and lovely refined aromas of fine red wine! The palate is dry, firm, yet silky, with underlying grip and tannins, heralding a long life. Notes of brambly fruit and cigar box add interest – the wine is a work-in-progress, developing slowly all the time.
Rated 4.5 stars in John Platter's Wine Guide 2006.

The wait is over! Tokara's near mythical top-of-the-line wines, years in meticulous gestation, finally released....well worth the wait...

John Platter, 2006.

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