Govert Family Wines - Merlot

Tasting Notes:

This wine is a well structured full bodied wine with a rich combination of sumptuous black cherry fruit, dark mocha chocolate and elegant spicy oak notes. The fine but firm tannins are complimented by a mouth filling fruity and lingering complexity. A wine made to age.

Alc: 15%, TA: 5.20, pH: 3.58, RS: 1.10

Sommeliers drinking guideline:

This wine is best enjoyed at a temperature of 18 degrees Celsius. The wine should reach its optimum drinking window in 5-8 years from now. If the wine is enjoyed now, make sure to decant it for at least one hour before serving.

Food Suggestion:

This wine is great with pepper crusted tuna, thick meat stews and curry, sausages and smoked duck, leg of lamb with fresh herbs.