Log in or create an account now and be a part of the world's largest wine site: research, rate and review wines; buy online; receive personalized recommendations.
Warwick Estate Professor Black Sauvignon Blanc(2006)
Varietals Alcohol pH TA RS Soil:
100% Sauvignon Blanc 13.9% 3.39 6.1 3.5 Hutton, Clovelly
Bottling Date: June 2006
Release date: August 2006
Winemaking procedure: The grapes were harvested at different levels of ripeness depending on fruit character, to ensure maximum fruitiness and complexity. The juice was handled reductively throughout the winemaking process and fermented very cold in specially designed stainless steel tanks. After fermentation the wine was kept on the gross lees for three months, blended and finally bottled in June 2006.
Winemaker’s comments:The read more...
- boo mahmoud
- August 2007
-
- Sauvignon Blanc in French is the "wild vine." It will grow anywhere, but everywhere it grows creates a very different style. Personally, I prefer the Sauvignon Blanc's from the Southern Hemisphere. In the North, the SB wines tend toward the shy side, but in South Africa they are loud, racy and gregarious...as you would expect from a wild vine. Warwick, the darling of South Africa, makes stellar wines accross the board...Norma Ratcliffe was the wine maker for many years--the first female winemaker in South Africa!
