Craven Wines - Cinsault 2023 (750ml)
Price: $25.99
| Producer | Craven Wines |
| Country | South Africa |
| Region | South Africa |
| Varietal | Cinsault |
| Vintage | 2023 |
| Sku | 204593 |
| Size | 750ml |
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Craven Wines Description
Mick & Jeanine are thankful to continue with this vineyard they have worked with since 2017 called ‘Rustenhof.’ This great farm in the Faure area has an abundance of lovely Cinsault, amongst many other varieties and Pieter Bredell, with Jeanine’s assistance and direction, farms it with great care. The block the Cravens use is a dryland, bush-vine block, only three miles from the ocean and essentially planted on granitic sand, suiting their winemaking style nicely. Mick emphasizes the massive difference in this vineyard since the 2017 vintage as the Cravens along with Pieter’s son, Bernhard, have been farming it organically and getting as much nutrient matter into the vineyard with use of winter cover crops and chicken manure. The 2021 wine is a brilliant result of the hard work put into the vineyard. Keeping in line with previous releases and straying from the other reds the Cravens make, the Cinsault grapes are destemmed before fermentation due to the natural low acidity and higher pH compared to other red varieties.
It is bottled slightly earlier than their other red wines in an effort to express the fresher, brighter characters of Cinsault.
Vinous: 91 Points
The 2023 Cinsault comes from a parcel in the Rustenhof farm shared with Scions of Sinai.
This was destemmed and spent eight to ten days on the skins. It has a pretty nose that's quite energetic and delineated, expressing white-tipped strawberry, maraschino cherry and just a hint of candy floss. The palate is very well balanced with a Grenache-like flashiness on the mid-palate and fine acidity. Crisp, focused and linear in style, it concludes with a peppery finish. Very fine.
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