Red meats from the barbecue, oven, casserole or grill are perfect partners. Hearty vegetarian foods call for this wine. The tannins are ripe and juicy which means it can also be a match to curry, from the most delicate to something hot from the tandoori oven. Cabernet Sauvignon cools and soothes the palate.”
Riaan Moller at one if his open tank fermentation
Nothing has changed. Red winemaker at Perdeberg Riaan Moller has created an easy drinking, oh-so-good quaffer of a wine here with all the characteristics of a good Cabernet. Perdeberg’s wine grape suppliers have vineyards mainly planted to bush vines which are dry land farmed, no irrigation at any time. The result is small berries with a higher ratio of skin to juice, just packing in the flavour.
Made in Perdeberg’s cellar using open top fermenters with frequent punch downs to extract flavours and low take up of tannins, the wine spends ten months in French oak barrels before being prepared for bottling.
Cabernet Sauvignon grapes on track into the cellar
It looks like
Bottled under screwcap in a Bordeaux shaped bottle. In the glass is deep opaque ruby at the core, which pales out to purple tinged garnet at the rim.
It smells like
Rich blackcurrant and sweet cherry notes. Undertow of oak.
It tastes like
Dark berry flavours good from entry through mid-palate into a long and smooth ending.
Steak sandwich, whipped goat’s cheese butter by Alida Ryder
It’s good with
Very pleasurable wine by the glass. It is a good food wine and a good match with anything from a piece of boerewors off the braai, to a guinea fowl casserole. The Steak sandwich with whipped goat’s cheese butter by Alida Ryder is a fabulous dish to serve with this wine, perfect partner for the rich flavours Alida has created. Click here for her recipe.
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Posted June 23rd, 2016 in wine of the day
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