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Lismore Estate Vineyards Western Cape Barrel Fermented Sauvignon Blanc 2021
Grapes Sauvignon Blanc 100%
Country South Africa
Region: Western Cape
Abv 13 %
Dry/Sweet value: 2 (1 is dry, 7 is very sweet) Residual Sugar: 3.8 Contains Sulphites: Yes Vegetarian/Vegan: Yes/Yes Milk/Eggs: No/No Organic: No Biodynamic: No
Case size 6/ 75cl
Winemaker Samantha O'Keefe
A funky Sauvage Sauvignon Blanc with atypical explosive spice, toffee and passion flower flavours. A true expression of this unique terroir and its equally unique winemaker. Closure Diam This barrel-fermented Sauvignon Blanc is a full-bodied, elegant, and beautifully balanced wine. Floral notes of passion flower, fynbos, and granadilla combine with guava, gooseberry, and pear on the palate and an underlying minerality, imparting its signature style. It truly expresses this unique terroir and its equally unique winemaker.
The wine was made in an 'oxidative' style. The must was barrel-fermented in older 300-litre barrels to bring richness and complexity. The wine was given extended less contact with occasional bâtonnage to contribute further to the rounder mouth feel and creaminess of this elegantly textured wine. The wine was aged for nine months. The bracing acidity customary in New World Sauvignon Blancs has been balanced with a carefully chosen pick date and the barrel fermentation, creating a full-bodied, balanced wine.
This barrel-fermented Sauvignon Blanc is a full-bodied, elegant and beautifully balanced wine. Floral notes of passion flower, fynbos and granadilla combine with guava, gooseberry and pear on the palate, and an underlying minerality, imparting its signature style. A true expression of this unique terroir and its equally unique winemaker.
Californian Samantha O'Keefe has found paradise and the perfect terroir. Tucked into the foothills of a dramatic mountain range at the bottom of Africa, Lismore Estate Vineyards was born alongside her nascent family. A passionate vision, combined with vines planted at 300 metres, which are chilled by winter snow and nourished by the African summer sun, produces classic, cool-climate wines that are rich, complex, and lovingly hand-crafted.
Samantha O'Keefe performed miracles to produce this wine: because a fire destroyed part of her vineyards and all of her finished wine in late 2019, she had to select wines from different vineyards in Stellenbosch, with 15% also coming from the upper Hemel-enAarde valley in Hermanus, whose grapes bore close resemblance to those lost on her vineyard.
