Tormentoso Syrah / Mourvedre (South Africa)

Tasting notes: garnet core with a lighter rim. Intensely aromatic with aromas of orange-peel leather cigar tobacco liquorice and dark plum fruit. Medium to full-bodied with layers of blackforest cake and typical black wine gum flavours rounded out by soft juicy tannins on the finish. Vineyards: trellised vineyards grown on well-drained shale soils in the agter-paarl region. These soils combined with low rainfall and warm conditions reduce the vigour of the vineyard sand produce smaller berries resulting in distinctive syrah wines with concentrated flavours and distinctive minerality. The mourvedre comes from an un-irrigated 10-year-old block grown on the koopmansk-raal farm in agter-paarl vinification details: the grapes were hand-harvested at between24 and 26° balling and given a one daycold maceration. Fermentation took place over5 days in stainless steel tanks with regular pump-overs. Just before the end offermentation the wine was pressed and putback into tank for m