Bosman ‘Upper Hemel & Aarde’ Sauv. Blanc 2020

Bosman ‘Upper Hemel & Aarde’ Sauvignon Blanc 2020

Winemaking

The cooled grapes are pressed using reductive measures. The settled juice is then inoculated and fermented at cool temperatures to ensure complex compound flavours that develop over an extended fermentation period.

Tasting Notes

A vibrant green heart with a lime green rim. A mélange of kiwi, gooseberries, fresh passionfruit, flint (as in mineral tones) and white fig. A beautiful mouth feel with a long fruit packed finish.

Analysis

Alcohol: 13.0 %
Residual Sugar: 2.5 g/l
Total Acidity: 5.4 g/l
pH: 3.32
Wine of Origin: Wellington

Special Notes

In 2000 the family acquired a vineyard in the Upper Hemel-en-Aarde Valley which would supplement their offering with cool climate grapes. Here the vineyards are planted between fields of indigenous ‘fynbos’ and in close proximity to the sea.

Ideal soil types combine with cooling sea breezes to create terroir rivalling the world’s best; and resulting in wines with minerality, elegance, vivacity and finesse.

From our vineyards overlooking Walker Bay, at the foothills of the Babylonstoren mountains. Three different vineyards, one called Murasie (ruin) and a second batch from a new vineyard Appelboord, as well a selection of Sauvignon Blanc vines from the Vine Garden Vineyard. We always vinify a batch of Semillon from one of our highest altitude vineyards -and sometimes -as in 2020 -the wine is used to lift the blend.