Skerpioen 2023

The Sadie Family, teknisk ark (thesadiefamily.com – linket fra thesadiefamily.com, hentet 2026-10-18): 2023 The Sadie Family Skerpioen – område: St Helena Bay; druer: Chenin Blanc, Palomino; alkohol 13.4%. Beliggenhed ifølge arket: Swartland - St. Helena Bay. Enkeltmark: arket beskriver vinen som fra én vinmark (Skerpioen). Producentens noter (engelsk): Grapes: Chenin Blanc / Steen (South African synonym), Palomino. Vinification: After harvesting the grapes are placed in a cooling room to reduce the temperature, since the average temperatures are often 35 degrees or more – and pressing warm grapes comes with its own series of problems. We then do whole bunch pressing, a process that takes about 3 hours during which time there is a margin of settling of the juice in the collecting tank. The juice is then transferred to two old foudres for fermentation. The natural fermentation can sometimes take up to 5 days or more to start. The fermentation may continue from 1 to 6 months and sometimes it only finishes in the following spring, by which time the malolactic fermentation would often have come to completion as well. Ageing: The wine is left in cask on the fermentation lees for the entire first 12 months and we bottle from the lees. Only about 50ppm of sulphur is added 2 weeks prior to bottling.