Tokara Shiraz

The beautiful Tokara Wine and Olive Estate is situated in the historic Western Cape region just outside the town of Stellenbosch and is framed by vineyards and olive groves. The estate is a popular destination for wine, food and art enthusiasts
The wine displays a dark cherry colour in the glass. Aromas of plums, blackberries and briary fruit emanate with underlying notes of dried herbs, black olives and rosemary. Flavours on the palate are quite spicy with a good support of red fruit notes. The mid- palate is juicy yet the finish is dry with beautiful fine grained tannins on the finish.

Wine Making
First the fermenters are loaded with 25% whole bunches by hand before the remaining capacity of the tank is filled with destemed and crushed fruit. The grapes are left to cold soak until the fermentation starts spontaneously. They were fermented in stainless steel and wooden upright (foudre) fermenters. Pump-over’s, dellastage and punching down of the cap were implemented twice a day for extraction until fermentation was completed. The tanks were given maceration post fermentation if the quality warranted it, depending on tannin development. The wines were put to barrel for malolactic fermentation after which they were sulphured up and left in barrel for further maturation.

Ageing
The wines spend a total of ten months in barrel, 10% of which is new French barriques with the balance being 2nd to 5th fill barriques. After which the batches are blended and then kept in stainless steel for a further 6 months before being filtered and bottled. The wine was bottled in June 2019.

Food Pairing
You can take Tokara Shiraz with beef, game birds, lamb or pork.

VARIETY : Shiraz [ 100% Shiraz ]
WINERY : TOKARA Wines | Olive Oil
WINEMAKER : Stuart Botha
WINE OF ORIGIN : Western Cape

Cellaring Potential: Up to 5 years
ANALYSIS :

Alc : 14.17 % vol  rs : 2.2 g/l  pH : 3.50  ta : 5.8 g/l
Type : Red  Style : Dry  Body : Medium  Taste : Herbaceous   wooded
Pack : Bottle  Size : 750ml  Closure : Screwcap