The Fledge & Co. Jikken Barrels Praeteritus Bosstok Tinta Barocca 2020
South Africa, Swartland
Tinta Barocca
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Alcohol
14.0%
Analytical data
dry
Vinification
All fruit was crushed & destemmed into a small lagar, inoculated with a Pinot Noir yeast strain (our cellar is old & we can't take chances), cool fermented & gentle manual pipeage done throughout the 6 day ferment. Free-run drained to barrel & gentle pressing also taken to barrel for MLF. Post-MLF the wine was racked into 500L old French oak barrels as well as a single 225L 4th fill barrique. This single barrique was bottled unfined, unfiltered by hand, resulting in 40 cases.
Vineyard: Jakkalsfontein Verlore Genade Blok
Dry farmed bush vines planted on highly decomposed Paardeberg granitic soil plantedin 1971. Ultra typical Paardeberg climatic conditions - hopefully cool wet winters, with blistering summers mildly mitigated with westerly winds off the Atlantic. Harvested end March with the fruit still in pristine condition. An ideal climate & terroir for cultivating Portuguese varieties - but so is much of the Cape.
Soil Type
Highly weathered & decomposed ancient granitic based soils derived from the granitic outcroppings now know as the Paarderberg. High silica content in the highly weathered soil with some ironstone spread in the substrate & a clay layer deep below allowing for dry land farming.
Viticulture
Simplistic viticulture - hand pruning, some shoot suckering & hand harvested fruit. Due to the age of the block some regenerative agricultural practices have been implemented to increase the biomass within the soils.
Maturation
Matured for 15 months in old French oak barrique to temper the wine a bit.
