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Hoopenburg Integer Syrah 2009
Technical Analysis
Winemaker
: Neil Hawkins
Main Variety : Shiraz
Alcohol : 14.29 %vol
pH : 3.4
RS : 2.2 g/l
Total Acid : 5.8 g/l
Appellation : Stellenbosch
Characteristics
Type : Red
Style : Dry


Tasting Notes
Nose: Flowers, perfume, violets and liquorice with very subtle spices in the background.
Palate: Forward fruit at first, structured mid-palate, with lovely 'Pinot-esk' elegance, finishing with silky savoury tannins.
Blend Information
100% Shiraz
In The Vineyard
The fruit for this Syrah was selected from the rows of vines that showed most fruit flavour uniformity.
About The Harvest
Picked ripe at 25.5° Balling.
In The Cellar
The grapes were de-stemmed, not crushed and tipped into an open fermentor under carbon dioxide. The grapes were cold soaked for roughly ten days until the natural yeast started to ferment the sugars. The wine finished fermentation on the skins, and was then left for a further week on the skins stabilizing the tannins (totaling 30 days) before being pressed directly into barrels. Here the wine underwent malolactic fermentation in 40% new and 60% 2nd and 3rd fill French oak barrels. The wine was aged for 30 months before being blended and bottled with a very coarse filtration. 500 cases of 6 produced.

Other Vintages
Hoopenburg Integer Syrah / Mourvèdre / Carignan 2010 Neil Hawkins Shiraz
Hoopenburg Integer Syrah 2009 Neil Hawkins Shiraz
Hoopenburg Integer Syrah (Bushvine) 2007 Neil Hawkins Shiraz

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R101 Old Paarl Road Muldersvlei Stellenbosch, Stellenbosch, 7599, South Africa