Darling Cellars Eveningstar Cinsault 2020

Dare to indulge! Packed with fresh red fruit, spice, red pepper, chocolate mocha and candy floss. A highly drinkable red! Enjoy this ’all rounder’ with light meals or on its own. A true reflection of the Darling area magic!

Cinsault

Deep, decomposed granite soils on the slopes of the Darling Hills, with a cooling effect from the Atlantic Ocean in close proximity, in the warm afternoons

Vineyard type: Bush Vine, dry land
Yield: 3 -7 t/ha

Balling at Harvest: 23-24°B

Crush and destalk, 15 days fermentation at 20-30°C on skin. Pressed at 5-10°B. A portion of the wine spend 8-12 months on staves and to add complexity and layers, this wine is blended with other components.

The recent demarcation of the Darling district has led to a focus at Darling Cellars on wines which are terroir and varietal specific. The cool and temperate West Coast climate lends itself to a different micro- and mesoclimate which, along with the different types of soil, lead to unique grapes, which we guide into even more unique wines. Having 99% of all vineyards dry land and almost the same percentage as bush vine, this is as close to what nature intended for grapes to be as one can get.