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#391 Fledge and Co. ‘Te Nat’ Tannat 2022

VIDEO CHAPTER INDEX:

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00:00 – Why is Tannat famous?

00:20 – What is “Procyanidin”?

00:28 – What is the French Paradox?

00:46 – Procyanidin vs Resveratrol

01:56 – Wild swings from the FDA

02:31 – Into to the wine of the day

03:04 – What does “Te Nat” mean?

03:45 – The complex relationship between rainfall and grape farming

05:59 – Tasting notes on the Fledge and Co Te Nat Tannat 2022

07:34 – Video links to more info on Tannat and the Fledge & Co team

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TASTING NOTES

👃🏼The vanguard carries touches of white pepper, wild blackberry leaves and oreganum, wrapped around some brooding ripe mulberry and touches of blackcuyrrant fruit pastilles

👄 Traditionally, tannat has huge tannins but this wine is suprisingly fresh, silky and juicy! Despite the fact that there are some riper blackberry elements upfront, the wine is more in the red fruit zone, with a lot of tart red berry elements (red cherry, red mulberry), balanced by some sweeter red toffee apple candy.

The finish carries some lovely light cherry skin-like tannins.

TECHNICAL SPECS

🔬 Wine of Origin Buffelsjagsrivier, Cape South
Coast. 100% Tannat. The fruit comes from a vineyard planted into rocky alluvial deposits with limestone, koffieklip & sandstone. Wholeberries were fermented in small open fermenter, with only native yeasts being used. The grapes were then foot-trodden & pressed, whereafter, the resultant wine was matured in 225-litre French oak barrels for 19 months.
Alc. 13.74% | pH 3.08 | Sugar 1.7 g/L | Acid 7.3 g/L

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