Cabernet Sauvignon 'Stellenbosch', Damascene 2022

• 100% Cabernet Sauvignon • Sourced from 3 separate vineyards dating back to 2001: Vlottenburg (towards the Polkadraai Hills), a West facing site in the Bottelary, and a NE facing site on the Helderberg Mountain • The vineyards are located between 14-20KM from the Atlantic Ocean on decomposed granite • Hand harvested • Bunches were de-stemmed and gravity-fed into tulip-shaped concrete fermenters, where whole berries were cold-soaked for 3 days before primary fermentation commenced • Fermented with indigenous yeast, with temperatures peaking at 28C in 60% new French oak barrique • The wine was racked twice prior, once at 11 months (when the wine transferred to 2000-Liter conical Austrian oak vats) and two weeks before bottling • The wine spent a total of 22 months in oak • Bottled unfined