Painted Wolf WinesCase of Jemma Cabernet Sauvignon 2015 (R54.83 per Bottle, 6 Bottles)
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About
At Painted Wolf Wines, we celebrate and help conserve the endangered African wild dog, our most charismatic predator. Wild dogs and cyclists have much in common: individual prowess, teamwork, energy, camaraderie and a never-give-up attitude. Jeremy is an enthusiastic cyclist and has used this passion as an additional way to raise funds for conservation. He has organised rides through some of the remaining pockets of wilderness inhabited by wild dogs as well as sponsoring major cycling events like the Tour de Tuli, which benefits the Children in the Wilderness charity.
Jemma is our old bush vehicle, which carried us on wonderful adventures to remote and pristine places. She is now engaged in seeking out grapes, and in motivating funding for conservation. The label features a water colour painting by Jenny Metelerkamp, our friend and companion when we lived in the bush in Botswana.
Product Features
- 6 Bottles
- Vintage: 2017
- Dry Red Wine
- Cabernet Sauvignon 88% Merlot 12%
- Technical Analysis:
- Alc: 14%
- R.S: 3.1g/l
- T.A: 5.7g/l
- Ph: 3.52
Tasting notes
A classy medium to full-bodied wine with typical Cab flavours of black currant, brambly fruit, cigar box augmented by toasty oak. The wine has a lovely rich mid mouth texture, a long fruit driven finish with fresh acid and ripe tannins.
Food suggestions
Enjoy with a variety of meat dishes such as home-made lamb burgers, sticky roasted pork belly or braised lamb shanks.
The vineyard
Cabernet Sauvignon is mostly sourced mainly from the Bottleray and Heldeberg areas of Stellenbosch. It is finished with 12% Merlot
Winemaking
Fermented with Bordeaux yeast strains in a tank with French oak staves, and then completed malolactic fermentation and maturation on staves.
Aging potential
Up to four years from vintage.
Writer's block
Ours is about 3 feet by 3 feet, and on our left is the account's block. The marketing block is down the hall.
We're joking. Obviously.
Ours is at least 5 by 5, and on Wednesdays we're allowed to write in coffee shops to maintain the illusion that we're "successful" and "writerly".
Coming up with a write up for the simple sake of a write up does, however, become difficult when we're staring complete lack of creativity right in the face. But apparently asking management to cancel all the deals for the day isn't a viable fix.
As they so delicately put it, it'd be like a comedian having the option to suddenly cancel a show if they're not feeling up to it. Not on our watch, they said. You'll do a write up whether you like it or not, they said. And be funny, they said.
So here we are, doing a write up and being funny.