Boplaas Cabernet Sauvignon 2020

abernet Sauvignon, still the most consumed red wine variety globally and rightfully regarded as the King of Grapes due to its uncanny ability of crafting iconic complex, plush and age worthy wines in the right terroir, while just as easily allowing for the production hearty everyday Claret. Utilizing old clonal material and low yielding vines, the Boplaas Cabernet is very much the latter reflection of Cabernet with its medium structure, buxom red fruits and hint of spice and oak making for an honest food-friendly staple.

Fruit for this wine originates from a selection of old clone Cabernet blocks planted between 1989 and 1994, harvested by hand in the cool of the morning and fermented in temperature controlled open top cement fermenters – called kuipe in Afrikaans or lagars in Portugal – which manual punch downs to gently coax optimum flavour and colour extraction from the grape skins, while maintaining aromatics and allowing unwanted phenols to blow-off. The wine is barrel matured in a combination of 3rd and 4th fill French oak barrels, as well as using oak alternatives, for 10 months prior to bottling with a light filtration.