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Solms-Delta Rose 2016
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| Country: | South Africa |
| Region: | Western Cape |
| Winery: | Solms Delta Winery |
| Grape Type: | Grenache |
| Vintage: | 2016 |
| Bottle Size: | 750 ml |
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Product Description
Tasting Notes:
The wine has a focused palate, supported by concentrated fruit and a mineral core. The nose shows bright red fruit with raspberry, strawberry and apple notes. Alluring light salmon color.
Label Detail:
Celebrating Solms-Delta’s rich history, this wine is nicknamed “Lekkerwijn”. The back label tells the story of the farm adjoining Delta, now largely incorporated into it. The first owner, Henri l’Ecrévent, was granted the property in 1690. Locals, unable to pronounce his name, solved the problem by dubbing him Arie Lekkerwijn. He was slain nine years later by the first owner of Delta, Hans Silberbach, who then took flight and was never seen again.
Grape Varietals: 100% Grenache Noir
Style of Wine: Dry rosé
Vinification: The grapes were given overnight skin contact to extract color and flavour and then gently pressed to extract only the best juice. The wine was then tank fermented at cool temperatures to optimise fruit expression.
Maturation: The wine was aged on the lees in tanks for 6 months
Alcohol 13% Vol
Residual Sugar 2.14 g/l
Total Acidity 5.3 g/l
pH 3.28
It’s an ideal lunch-time wine, and a perfect partner for smoked salmon, poultry, cold ham and nutty-style hard cheeses.
Winery: Solms Delta Winery
Produced by Solms-Delta (Pty) Ltd, which is a joint venture between the Solms and Astor families and the Wijn de Caab Trust, the beneficiaries of which are the historically disadvantaged residents and employees of Delta farm and its environs.
The South African roots of world-renowned neuroscientist Professor Mark Solms brought him back home in 2002 to revitalise the historic Delta wine estate … and to fundamentally rethink Cape wine-making traditions in the process.
Solms assumed custodianship of the 320-year-old estate with a vision that went much deeper than re-establishing its vineyards and cellars. He also wanted to do something about the legacy of his European forebears (who had settled in the Cape six generations before) and thereby address the pressing social and economic problems facing South Africa today.
First he planted Rhône varietals, ideally suited to the dry, hot and windy ‘Mediterranean’ climate of the Franschhoek Valley. Then he and the winemaker Hilko Hegewisch introduced desiccation – a largely forgotten, ancient mediterranean vineyard practice.
The result is a stable of wines that delivers a new, uniquely South African style. These are classical wines with a difference: made from grapes desiccated on the vine in the manner of the ancient Greeks, using selected French varietals that are known to thrive in Mediterranean climes, intelligently blended with the tried-and-tested favourite grape varietals of the old Cape. The wines offer a cascade of tastes and styles, all with a distinctive sense of place.
Label Detail:
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