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Fairview `Beacon` Shiraz

Online Catalogue | South Africa | Red |  Fairview `Beacon` Shiraz

Fairview `Beacon` Shiraz

Fairview `Beacon` Shiraz

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Price:£15.95
Tremendous depth of colour, with bold, powerful perfumes beginning to change from spiced berries and plums to a softer, more leathery note. On the palate it is full bodied and chunky, with solid tannins supporting the dark, spiced fruit character with a savoury note which lasts to the finish.
34° South and 19° East marks the site of a most unique vineyard. The Surveyor General’s trigonometric beacon rises from the top of a mound of metamorphic stone which was formed many millions of years ago. In primordial times, the area was an ancient ocean bed. Now, un-irrigated bush vines, planted in 1995 by the Dreyer family who have been growing grapes here since 1705, grow between large, flat, grey shale stones. Their roots penetrate the rock in search of nutrients and moisture. The vines are pruned for low yields, with the deep Glenrosa soils naturally encouraging the production of small berries but also retaining moisture well so the crop ripens early. The vineyard faces north-west.


Online Catalogue | South Africa | Red |  Fairview `Beacon` Shiraz