Darling Cellars Chocoholic Pinotage 2023

2024 SAWi Awards - Platinum
 

Enticing aromas of Turkish delight, chocolate, red and black cherries, vanilla and red plum. These follow through to the palate with an added hint of butterscotch and smooth, supple tannins. Perfectly balanced, this wine will tickle your taste buds and reward with its structure and length of flavour.

100% Pinotage

Enjoy this wine on its own or pair with a variety of meat or pasta dishes, and berry or chocolate desserts.

Yield: 3 - 7 t/ha
Balling at Harvest: 24 - 25°B

Vinification: Crush and destalk, 5 - 6 days fermentation at 20 - 30°C on skin. Pressed at 5 - 10°B.
Maturation: A portion of the wine spent 8 - 12 months on staves to add complexity and layers.

Chocoholic is composed of two distinctly differing components. 10% of the juice was created by twisting the grape stalks to induce raisening of the fruit while still on the vine. The juice from these grapes is then added to Pinotage juice which received oak contact to produce a seductively smooth, sensually soft, subtly sweet, mouth fillingly moreish, unashamedly addictive, decadently Pinotage.