Sun Kiss Dry Red - 'Swartland' Syrah, Grenache, Cinsault 2020

Sun Kiss Dry Red - 'Swartland' Syrah, Grenache, Cinsault 2020

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"The aromas are perfumed, peppery, spicy, smokey & exhibit ripe red fruit notes. Supple, smooth on entry but with enough grip to end dry and refreshing. In the mouth the texture & fineness of tannin and drinkability of the wine is immediately evident"  40% Syrah, 30% Grenache, 30% Cinsault. Porseleinberg Farm, schiste soils. 100% whole bunch wild ferment, no fining, light filter off lees to bottling, 50ppm SO2 added at bottling. All farming!

--------THE PRODUCER--------

Julian Richards - Colere

Kiwi Julian has been working vintages in all sorts of wonderful wine places around the world.   This time he traveled to the Swartland region North or Cape Town in South Africa where he hung out with 100-point winemaker Callie from Porseleinberg.  Generously, Callie allowed Julian to purchase some of his fruit to make his own wine.  The result is two Sun Kiss wines, a 100% Grenache and this blend of Syrah, Grenache and Cinsault.

 

 

--------THE GRAPE--------

Rhone Red Blend

The Rhone Red Blend is often known as the GSM blend whereby the three main grapes are Grenache, Syrah and Mouvedre. In actuality there can be up to 13 grapes made into this blend, by law, in the southern Rhone Valley. You can have lighter and more floral versions of the Rhone Red Blend or have bolder and oakier versions depending where in the world it is made. 

 

 

--------THE REGION--------

Swartland

The Swartland is a region of Western Cape Province that begins some 50 kilometres north of Cape Town and consists of the area between the towns of Malmesbury in the south, Darling in the west, Piketberg in the north, and Riebeek Kasteel in the east. Jan van Riebeek, the first Colonial Administrator of the Dutch Cape Colony (South Africa), called this softly undulating country between the mountain ranges "Het Zwarte Land" (the Black Land) because of the endemic Renosterbos (Elytropappus rhinocerotis). After the rains, mainly in winter, the Renosterbos takes on a dark appearance when viewed from the distance in large numbers. This is due to the fine leaf-hairs adhering to the leaves when wet. The wide fertile plain is the bread basket of the Cape with its wheat fields reaching up to the foot of the mountains, interrupted by wine, fruit, and vegetable farms.   It is particularly well-known for wines produced from very old, bush vines.  The winemakers who have made this their home in the past 10-15 years have set the world alight with their complex red and white blends and single-varietal (especially Rhone and Chenin Blanc) wines.