| | The Three Foxes is a tiny boutique winery set up by three cool dudes in Western Cape, South Africa. Chris Mullineaux and Oliver and Pascal Schildt make just 2000 bottles of Carignan with minimal intervention, including no fining or filtering. Grapes are sourced from some of the most exciting vineyards of the Swartland region and the focus lies with Mediteranean grape varieties. |
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2015 The Three Foxes Swartland Carignan
$180 6pack
This wine is ripe and delightful and the higher natural acidity cuts through the alcohol to give it fantastic balance and a nice juicy component. We Love it!
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| From a shallow rocky vineyard on the east facing slopes of the Voor-Paardeberg. The soils are ancient decomposed granite gravels. This rugged rocky outcrop is on the boarder of the Paarl and Swartland regions. The clusters are hand-picked, mostly de-stemmed but a small component left whole cluster. As with all The Three Foxes wines, the wine is fermented using solely wild yeast. The wine stays on the skins for around three weeks for slow gentle extraction. It is then transferred to older 600L French oak Puncheons for 18 months maturation. A natural malo occurs and the wine is eventually bottles unfined and unfiltered. This wine typically shows concentrated bramble fruits with a dense, juicy mid-palate and fresh acidity to keep the wines power and richness nicely in check. The whole cluster component gives lifted aromatics, ground spice notes and freshness. This is a full bodied wine, with lovely definition and layered complexities from the soils and wild yeast ferment.
SWARTLAND
The Swartland is an exciting region, roughly 45 minutes drive north of Cape Town. It produces balanced wines of individuality and character, with little need for intervention in the cellar. It is fast proving to be a region perfectly suited to the cultivation of Mediterranean varieties. To the west, it borders the Atlantic Ocean, which brings cool afternoon and evening breezes, helping the vineyards recover at night, maintaining freshness and acidity.
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