Waterkloof Circumstance Mourvedre 2017

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    Vintage
    2017

    Size
    750ML

    ABV
    13.5%

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    A complex wine that keeps you going back to your glass with a fusion of savory and sage notes and supple raspberry and dark fruit. It can be paired with a variety of dishes, but should show well with wild boar or lamb on the grill.

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    Waterkloof, South Africa
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    Waterkloof is an independent, family-owned, biodynamic farm. The vineyard is perched on the ocean-facing, windswept slopes of the Schepenberg, just 2.5 miles from The Atlantic Ocean on the coastal outskirts of Stellenbosch. The farm is chemical-free, certified biodynamic (one of only two in South Africa) and astonishingly, eschews the use of tractors in the vineyards, preferring to work with with six Percheron horses. The only winemaking addition in the cellar is a small dose of sulphur dioxide as a preservative before bottling.

    Following 24 years as a UK based wine importer and 20 of those simultaneously making his own wines in France (with other people's grapes), Anglo-Frenchman Paul Boutinot finally found the vineyard he wished to call his own in 2004. To the surprise of many however, instead of plumping for the familiar and well-trodden path of the Loire or Rhone Valleys, he gambled and backed the vast potential of South Africa and, more specifically, Waterkloof. Six years after crafting Waterkloof's first wines in their own award-winning cellar on the farm, their two flaghship Circle of Life wines are already served in many of the world's Top 100 restaurants including Dinner by Heston Blumenthal, Zuma, The Ledbury and Azurmendi.

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    Full of ripe fruit, and robust, earthy goodness, Mourvèdre is actually of Spanish provenance, where it still goes by the name Monastrell or Mataro. It is better associated however, with the Red Blends of the Rhône, namely Chateauneuf-du-Pape. Mourvèdre shines on its own in Bandol and is popular both as a single varietal wine in blends in the New World regions of Australia, California and Washington. Somm Secret—While Mourvèdre has been in California for many years, it didn’t gain momentum until the 1980s when a group of California winemakers inspired by the wines of the Rhône Valley finally began to renew a focus on it.

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    South Africa’s most famous wine-producing district, Stellenbosch, surrounds the historic town with the same name; fine winemaking here dates back to the late 1600s. Its valleys of granite, sandstone and alluvial loam soils between the towering blue-grey mountains of Stellenbosch, Simonsberg and Helderberg have the capacity to produce beautiful wines from many varieties. The climate is warm Mediterranean, tempered by the cool Atlantic air of nearby False Bay.

    Perhaps most well-known for its Pinotage and Bordeaux blends, Stellenbosch also produces noteworthy wines from Syrah, Chenin blanc, Chardonnay and Sauvignon blanc. The district’s wards—Banghoek, Bottelary, Devon Valley, Jonkershoek Valley, Papegaaiberg, Polkadraai Hills and Simonsberg-Stellenbosch—all produce distinctive wines from vines with relatively low yields.

    GTSTV10804_2017 Item# 1005417

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