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Radford Dale Frankenstein Pinotage 2023
R499.00
The grapes were hand picked into small 20kg lug boxes and then hand sorted as with all Radford Dale grapes. A large percentage of bunches were de-stemmed but not crushed so that about 50% of berries were transferred to our foudre (a large open top, oak fermenter). This meant that during the fermentation a partial carbonic fermentation took place which helped to enhance the pure fruited nature of the wine, while ensuring a limited extraction of tannins. The wine was then lightly basket pressed and transferred by gravity to barrel for maturation. A particular focus during the vinification of this wine was to employ the most gentle, most traditional of techniques from harvesting to bottling.
Only large-format (500L and 600L) barrels were used to mature the wine. The focus being to retain the wonderfully expressive, pure fruit while allowing for enhanced texture. Additionally, no new oak was used to allow the fruit to shine.
ANALYSIS Alcohol 11.5 % vol. | TA 5.2 g/l | pH 3.61 | RS 1.1 g/l
2 in stock
Description
Dr. Abraham Perold was the South African viticulturist and scientist who in 1925 germinated, at Stellenbosch University, the Pinotage varietal by intermingling two species of grapes which, arguably, should never have been given life together : Pinot Noir & Cinsault. A century earlier, Dr. Victor Frankenstein, from Mary Shelley’s novel Frankenstein, created an equally strange creature, also by stitching together different body parts from mismatched ‘donors’. The Radford Dale Frankenstein Pinotage is our nod to the work carried out in his laboratory by South Africa’s first professor of viticulture, Abraham Perold, and a wink to the creature he created.
Additional Information
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