Tasting Notes
An amazing fruit forward wine with great complexity. The flavours of cherries, strawberries, red mulberries, pomegranate, liquorice, vanilla, red pepper and white pepper meet you on the nose. A very big structured wine with good fruit concentration on the palate. This fruit is carried through in a long lingering aftertaste.
Food Suggestions
A very balanced wine which can be enjoyed with mild curry dishes or a nice slow cooked brisket
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
Yield : 6 t/ha
Balling at Harvest : 24-25°B
In The Cellar
Destalk and crush, 5-10 days fermentation at 20-30°C
Maturation: 8 months aged in stainless steel tanks
Additional Information
THE STORY BEHIND THE LABEL
Darling Cellars Reserve is a wine range of straight varietals where the focus is on fruit driven, varietal true, value for money wines. The grapes were harvested from dryland farmed vineyards in Darling, where the vines are not trellised and planted as bush vines.