The Nedbank Cape Winemakers Guild Auction 2022
Live Virtual Auction, 30 September - 1 October 2022
Cape Winemakers Guild Saturday, 01 October
About this Item
“It’s been a great journey for us as a family coming into the valley, starting to discover it. We always say that we are learning more and more from the vineyards that we farm. That’s basically the approach we take with our winemaking as well: it’s just to never stop learning.” - Gordon Newton Johnson
100% Pinot Noir
This is a bare-bones glimpse of Windansea, the power dimension to Pinot Noir on our farm. In the stoniest and most clay-rich of our granite soils, the bunches were selectively picked by the family for this small cuvée. Made without sulphur in the winemaking, allowing diverse micro-organisms from the grape itself to flourish unrestrained in the fermentation, enhancing complexity. 11 months’ maturation with a further six months’ élevage in large oak. Unfiltered, it will age over many years in bottle.
Tasting Notes: A lavish wine, saturated with blackberry, liquorice and rich red currants. Lingering impressions of soft spice and freshly turned earth. Bountiful and seamless tannin texture in to a chalky finish.
Ready for drinking in 2 to 15 years’ time.
Bottle Size: 750 ml
Case Size: 6 x 750 ml
Total Quantity Cases Produced: 107
Quantity Cases on offer for this Auction: 50
Alc: 14.13
RS: 2.4
TA: 5.5
pH: 3.67
Notes
Friday, 30 September Session
Lot 122: 12 bottles
Lot 123: 12 bottles
Lot 124: 12 bottles
Lot 125: 24 bottles
Lot 126: 24 bottles
Saturday, 01 October Session
Lot 398: 12 bottles
Lot 399: 12 bottles
Lot 400: 24 bottles
Lot 401: 24 bottles
Lot 402: 36 bottles
Lot 403: 36 bottles
Lot 404: 36 bottles
Lot 405: 36 bottles
Provenance
Wine of Origin: Upper Hemel-en-Aarde Valley
Winemaker: Gordon Newton Johnson
- 2020
- Cape Winemakers Guild
- CWG
- Gordon Newton Johnson
- Hemel-en-Aarde
- Hermanus
- Newton Johnson
- Pinot Noir
- Windansea
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