Sweets & Fortifieds and Additional Finds
Timed Online Auction, 28 May - 10 June 2024
Fortifieds
About this Item
This wine was produced from four Portuguese varieties on old vines at the farm in Calitzdorp, along with small parcels of top-grade fruit from vineyards that supply Boplaas. Grapes were hand-harvested at optimal ripeness and fermented in lagars, with intense manual pigeage to extract optimal flavour, colour and tannin prior to fortification with wine spirit. It was then matured for two years in old, large-format French oak barrels before bottling, unfined and unfiltered.
Provenance
Private Client
Critics Ratings
'Enduring Cape benchmark; touriga, tinta & souzão showing Old World restraint in 2008: almost lean for Boplaas - just 90 grams/litre sugar - but ripe mulberry fruit, violets & cloves wrapped in finest tannins ensure usual approachability plus cellar-worthiness' - Platter's SA Wine Guide 2011, 5*
