2017 Lenko Old Vines Cabernet Sauvignon

The 2017 Lenko, Old vines Cabernet Sauvignon was harvested with excellent flavour in and the fruit was hanging clean on the vines. We started by destemming all of the fruit and about 50% of the fruit is crushed, while the other 50% remains whole berry during a 5-7 day cold soak. After cold soaking, we warm up the fruit for alcoholic fermentation.  Once alcoholic fermentation is complete and the tannin structure is right, we gently press each batch of wine off of the skins and pump it to a settling tank.  After settling, the wine is put into specially selected barrels for malolactic fermentation and aging.  The wine is sulphured in barrel to preserve the character and fruit and continues to age with careful monitoring for 20 months.  Through tasting and blending trials, the wine is then taken out of barrels, when ready, and blended into tank to integrate as the final wine.  This is a special selected barrels who quality and balance was integrated, elegant and best for blending to create this small batch wine.  A light filtration is carried out before bottling.