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2018 Kershaw Elgin Pinot Noir
RANGE: Clonal Selection
VARIETAL INFORMATION: 100% Pinot Noir made from French clones PN777, PN667, PN115, PN114 and PN113.
WINE OF ORIGIN: Elgin, Western Cape, South Africa
TOTAL VINEYARD PRODUCTION: 6.87 tons selected from 6 tiny parcels of Pinot Noir.
HISTORY: In 2012, owner Richard Kershaw MW, established Richard Kershaw Wines to
create clonally selected, site-specific, cool climate wine paradigms from apposite noble grapes i.e. ones with the ability to produce world-class examples. SA’s coolest wine district, Elgin Valley, reflected these principles benefitting from higher altitude, ocean proximity, specific cloud cover sequencing, high cold units and a large diurnal range, enabling the germane grapes, Chardonnay, Syrah and more recently Pinot Noir, to show a sense of place
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VINTAGE: Hand-Picking Dates: 14th – 24th February 2017 Brix at Harvest: 22.60 – 24.90
SEASON: Whilst 2018 experienced a cool winter to enable good vine dormancy, the rainfall was low and followed similar conditions felt in 2016 and 2017. Budbreak took place in ideal warm sunny conditions whilst flowering was a touch earlier than normal; strong blustery winds meant pollination took longer to complete. As a result, berry set was uneven
leading to some smaller berries that despite a lower yield did have good concentration of flavours. Despite expecting an early harvest an unusually cool December slowed down ripening whilst some January rain during veraison helped nourish the soils and more importantly, helped the vine focus on grape ripening rather than foliage & root growth. Harvest took place under blue skies in the second half of February. Importantly, night time temperatures were cooler than usual enabling
better colour and flavour formation; retention of acidity; steady phenolic ripeness. The net result is wines with fabulous natural acidity, pure and penetrating fruit flavours and fine powdery tannins.
WINEMAKING: The grapes were handpicked into small lug baskets and then manually sorted on a conveyor before the stems were removed. The destemmed berries fell onto a vibrating table in order to remove jacks and substandard berries before dropping uncrushed into small 500kg open-topped fermenters. The grapes underwent a 3-day maceration before spontaneous fermentation began. A gentle pigeage program was charted and the grapes remained on skins for 10-16 days. The wine was then racked to barrel under gravity and the remaining pomace basket-pressed. Malolactic then proceeded in barrel followed by a light sulphuring after which the wine was racked off Malolactic lees and returned to cleaned barrels for an 11-month maturation. No finings were necessary and the wine was simply racked and filtered prior to bottling.
BARREL SELECTION: A small number of artisanal coopers were selected, all from Burgundy and only French oak was chosen. 12% of the oak was new with the remainder split into 2nd and 3rd fill barrels of 228, 300 and 500 litres.
ALCOHOL: 13.50% For more information see extended technical sheet available on www.richardkershawwines.co.za
TOTAL PRODUCTION: 5850 bottles were produced, each individually marked on the label.
TASTING PROFILE: Captivating floral attributes underscored by purity, focus and freshness framed by fine powder tannins yet cushioned by a succulent texture and flavours of black cherry, pomegranate, rose petal and raspberry.
Richard Kershaw Wines
RICHARD KERSHAW – EN KOK, GONE MASTER OF WINE, GONE VINKUNSTNER. MESTERLIGT.
I kølige Elgin – the cooler place to be – finder vi Richard Kershaw Wines. Richard er uddannet kok. Desuden er en af under 400 personer i verden med et Master of Wine (MW) diplom – en af de absolut højeste professionalle standarder i vinverden. Hans fokus er cool climate, site-specific og clonally selected wines. I al sin kompleksitet betyder det: At hans vine er kølige i deres stil a la de flotteste Chardonnay fra Bourgogne og de bedste Syrah fra det nordlige Rhône. At det er terroir vine – dvs. vine der reflekterer Elgins jorde, klima, miljø og andre afgørende lokale aspekter. Og endelig, at han arbejder med særlige kloner af henholdsvis Chardonnay og Syrah – kloner der har forskellige nuancer og egenskaber. De forskellige typer af Chardonnay, respektivt Syrah, dyrkes, vinificeres og lagres separat, og til slut komponeres vinene som når en kok krydrer sin mad til perfektion.
Gå ombord i Richard Kershaws 3 fantastiske vine: En flot Burgundy style Chardonnay. Den er underspillet i sin kraft med frisk frugt og utrolig koncentration, alt sammen pakket ind i en let støttende fadlagring. De røde, en Northern Rhône style Syrah, har en dyb kerne af frugt, friskkværnet peber og sorte kirsebær, serveret på et lag af pudderfine tanniner og hans toplækre Pinot Noir, der virkelig viser at Elgin er stedet for elegant vin.
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