Vergelegen Wines : Current Vintages

	SAUVIGNON BLANC 2009
	Pale green colour. Nose jumps out of the glass - gooseberries, fig, tinned peas, black truffle, elderflower, some ripe fruits, cut grass, green pepper. The wine is full, intensely flavoured and very long on after taste.
	Origin
	The fruit came from Vergelegen's own vineyards as well as selected cool-climate vineyards in Elgin and the Overberg. The Vergelegen vines are on south and south-west-facing slopes 200-230m above sea level. The soils are granites or clay-based Clovelly.
	Vinification
	The grapes were picked as soon as the desired flavours were showing at optimum. There was no skin contact and most of the grapes were pressed in the new Bucher Inertys Press that reduces oxygen uptake, resulting in fresher, fruitier wines. The juice was settled at low temperatures for 48 hrs and then inoculated with Sauvignon Blanc specific yeasts. Fermentation occurred at higher temperatures than is the norm in South Africa, resulting in distinctively fuller, bigger, more intensely flavoured wines. The entire 2008 vintage will be bottled under the Savin closure.
	Composition
	97% Sauvignon Blanc, 3% Semillon
	Analysis
	13.5% Alc 3.0g/l RS 6.4g/l TA 3.28pH
	Maturation
	Drink now or over the next two to four years.