Van Loggerenberg, Geronimo Cinsault, Stellenbosch, South Africa, 2023

Viticulture

The wine is made from an old vine vineyard planted on the farm Rustenhof in the Firgrove area. The vineyard is planted with bush vines and dryland farmed. The soils are decomposed granite with under laying sandstone which gives this wine its elegance and finesse.

Winemaking

The grapes were 50% whole bunch fermented. All grapes were left to ferment naturally with one punch down performed daily. The wines underwent malolactic fermentation in barrel. The various barrels were blended after 9 months in old French oak barrels and bottled right after. The cinsaut is bottled earlier than our other red wines to maintain the crunchy fruit vibrancy unique to cinsaut. No enzymes or commercial yeast was used in making the wines.