Tokara Sauvignon Blanc 2019

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The Tokara Sauvignon Blanc has a vibrant light straw colour with flecks of green on the rim. There is an abundance of green melon, green apples, subtle lemongrass and granadilla on the nose. The wine enters the palate with concentrated flavours reminiscent of the nose. This finish is refreshing and crisp with a slight oyster shell salinity that makes it quite moreish.

The grapes for this wine originate from Tokara’s properties in two different regions: namely Stellenbosch and Elgin, as well as from bought-in fruit from two Stellenbosch vineyards. The vineyards crop at around 6 t/ha. The grapes were destemmed, crushed and pressed to stainless steel tanks for overnight settling, after which the juice was racked and run to barrel with some lees added back. 100% of the wine fermented in 228ltr French oak barrels, 5% being new barrels. The wine spent an average of 8 months in barrel ageing on the gross lees with regular lees stirring. There was no malolactic fermentation allowed on this wine. The wine was bottled in October 2018 after stabilisation and filtration.

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