Tormentoso Pinotage (South Africa)

Tasting note dark ruby centre with a ruby rim. This wine has typical pinotage aromas of black cherries dark chocolate. On the palate ripe plum and smoky spice flavours from the oak maturation finished by a hint of vanilla. Soft rich tannins and a lengthy finish. Vineyards grapes were hand-harvested from 20-year-old bush-vine vineyards on malmesbury shale soils. These low yielding bush-vine vineyards give pinotage grapes with concentrated flavours. Small berries and intense dark colour are trademarks of this dry-farmed vineyard in the agter-paarl producing rich and flavourful wines. Vinification details grapes were hand-harvested at between 24 and 25° balling. Matured in small oak barrels (10% new) for 12 months. Fined and filtered before bottling. Vintage description a cold and wet winter in 2014 set the stage for a very good 2015 harvest. Although the conditions were harsh and quite dry during harvest 2015 the yields were quite good and the reds were fantastic. Good ripen