Voyager Estate ‘Girt by Sea’ Cabernet/Merlot 2018

Voyager Estate ‘Girt by Sea’ Cabernet/Merlot 2018

Voyager Estate

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SKU:
15760

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VARIETY 69% Cabernet Sauvignon, 27%Merlot, 4% Petit Verdot
ALC/VOL 14.5%
pH 3.64
TA 5.9 g/L
VINEYARD North Block & Weightmans, Cordis Petit Verdot
SOIL Gently rolling, gravelly hills of the Stevens Valley
ORGANIC Sustainably farmed
HARVESTED 29 March to 6 April 2018
OAK 12 months, new, two & three-year French oak
CELLARING Up to 7 years
COLOUR Medium dark red
NOSE Red and dark berries, cocoa, violets and bayleaf
PALATE Rich, smooth, generous, soft fine tannins, integrated
FOOD MATCH Pizza, pasta, barbeques or cured meat platters
VINTAGE Excellent budburst was followed by a beautifully warm November with great flowering and fruit set. Summer was quite mild with just a few hot days in December then cool, dry conditions. The warmer March weather saw the reds ripen beautifully and they were harvested under clear, sunny skies with ripe, concentrated flavours and excellent fine-grained powdery tannins.

METHOD Fruit was de-stemmed but not crushed preserving whole berries, then fermented in a combination of open, static and concrete at below 27˚C with twice daily gentle hand plunging or pumpovers. Once pressed off skins, wines matured for 12 months in French oak with racking every three months to aid clarification then blended prior to bottling in June 2019

 

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