Tasting notes:
The Serenity 2009 is the product of one of the Cape’s finest vintages of the decade.A finely scented vibrant nose with beautifully lifted dark berry fruit and intriguing mineral and spicy notes characterise this wine. Refined, polished tannins are wrapped in an elegant structure that subtly occupies all corners of ones palate. Ethereal, yet assertive; classic and lingering, it reflects the grasp of style and deft hand of its maker.
Vinification:
The grapes were handpicked, sorted and crushed into open fermenters. Here they underwent cold maceration on their skins for seven days before completing fermentation and being pressed off to barrel where malolactic fermentation took place. Careful maturation in tight-grain French oak barriques, 36% of which were new, for a period of 18 months followed before the wine was bottled in October 2010. A further resting period of 35 months in bottle followed before deemed ready for release in October 2013.