Accolades
2021 Ultra Value Wine Challenge - Gold
Tasting Notes
This complex but also elegant wine spoils you with flavours of raspberry, ripe red plum, vanilla, coffee, liquorice, chocolate and nuances of tobacco. This wine has an elegant structure with velvety tannins and a surprisingly lengthy aftertaste. The balance is simply near perfect!
Food Suggestions
Enjoy this on its own or with roasted duck breast or roasted tomato and basil pasta.
In The Vineyard
Strategically selected sites which get the warm sunny days and cooling effect of the Atlantic Ocean. Deep soils from decomposed granite, clay rich, good drainage.
Vineyard type: Bush Vine, no irrigation
About The Harvest
Yield: 5.5 - 6.5 t/ha
Balling at Harvest: 24 - 25°B
In The Cellar
Vinification: Crush and destalk, 5 - 10 days fermentation at 22 - 30°C.
Maturation: 8 months aged on French and American oak staves.
Additional Information
Darling Cellars Reserve is a wine range of straight varietals where the focus is on fruit driven, varietal true, value for money wines.