Man Vintners Cabernet Sauvignon 2010

3 star rating in john platter guide

 Of course we coulda just slapped another cute furry thing on the label, but that's been done. It's time to focus again on what's in the bottle. This is the opposite of a critter wine, this is a wine to drink with critters. Not too serious, but serious enough.

From several un-irrigated vineyards in the Agter-Paarl area and the premium Stellenbosch region. Our Malmesbury Shale soils have excellent water retention ability and give concentrated, flavourful grapes, which were hand-harvested at optimum ripeness and given a one day cold maceration. Fermentation took place over 5 days in stainless steel tanks with regular pump-overs. Just before dryness, the wine was pressed and put back into tank for malo-lactic fermentation. 50% of the wine was matured in 300 l American oak barrels (25% new) for 12 months. Fined and filtered before bottling.