Thelema Merlot Reserve 2003 - Thelema Mountain Vineyard - South Africa for sale online at Hic Wines

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Thelema Merlot Reserve 2003

Bin No. TMVMRES03

Price: £30.00

Thelema's Merlot Reserve is only made in exceptional vintages. Only the finest parcels are selected from established vines which were planted in 1988 in Hutton soils (decomposed granite) at a density of 3200 vines per ha. Vineyard practices include vertical hedge trellising, spur pruning to 2 buds every 12cms and supplementary drip irrigation. Harvesting was by hand from 19th February to 2nd March and yielded 7t/ha. The whole bunches were de-stalked, hand sorted and crushed into stainless steel tanks where alcoholic fermentation took place at 28 degrees C with pump overs for 6 days and a further 5 days maceration before 100% malo-lactic fermentation and pressing into 100% new French barriques where ageing was for 20 months before bottling.
With enormous depth of colour, this wine is almost black in hue and is bursting with pure and concentrated blackcurrant aromas. The palate is full bodied and chunky with a well delineated structure of integrated, fine grained tannin and ripe toasty oak encasing the fruit flavours right through to the rounded, lengthy finish.
Rated 5 stars (the highest possible rating) in Platter’s South African Wine Guide 2006.

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