Critic Review
Tim Atkin 93/100
Kloovenburg Mourvedre 2024 Swartland
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This is a brilliant take on Mourvedre, which can be dense and chewy but here is almost ethereal. The extraction shows some sort of wizardry as the fruit lingers and the tannins are there but are somehow playful and certainly elegant. Well done winemaker Duncan Stuart for this wonderful wine. Because it has power and gracve you can pair it with many mediterranean style dishes.
Tim Atkin "Made for the first time as a stand-alone wine in 2024, this is a small but very interesting
release of just 1,200 bottles. Fermented with 40% whole bunches, it's a comparatively elegant
expression of what can be a tannic grape, showing flavours of clove, pepper, plum and blood
orange, a floral top note and savoury tannins."
All grapes are handpicked during the early morning hours and then cooled overnight in a temperature - controlled room at 5°C. 40% of these grapes are then crushed and destemmed, whilst the remaining 60% is fermented as whole cluster. Natural fermentation takes place in open fermenters. Extraction is obtained by light punch - downs twice a day. After fermentation is completed, the wine is left on the skins for another seven days and then pressed to neutral oak barrels. Malolactic fermentation is completed in the barrel. The wine is then racked from the lees and given a low dose of sulphur. The wine spends a total of 10 months in the barrel before it is bottled.
Tim Atkin "Made for the first time as a stand-alone wine in 2024, this is a small but very interesting
release of just 1,200 bottles. Fermented with 40% whole bunches, it's a comparatively elegant
expression of what can be a tannic grape, showing flavours of clove, pepper, plum and blood
orange, a floral top note and savoury tannins."
All grapes are handpicked during the early morning hours and then cooled overnight in a temperature - controlled room at 5°C. 40% of these grapes are then crushed and destemmed, whilst the remaining 60% is fermented as whole cluster. Natural fermentation takes place in open fermenters. Extraction is obtained by light punch - downs twice a day. After fermentation is completed, the wine is left on the skins for another seven days and then pressed to neutral oak barrels. Malolactic fermentation is completed in the barrel. The wine is then racked from the lees and given a low dose of sulphur. The wine spends a total of 10 months in the barrel before it is bottled.
South Africa
ABV 14.0%
Swartland
Vegan
100% Mourvedre
lamb, venison and turkey, braised duck breast
Red
2024
Cork
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Critic Review
Tim Atkin 93/100