Van Loveren PAPILLON Vin Doux
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No Vintage
750 ml
Other
Sparkling Wine
South Africa, Robertson
Muscat
Robertson
Others
11 %
51+ g/l
Super value sparkling wine. Delightful salmon pink colour with fruity nose, muscat-flavoured with a full-sweet lingering finish on the palate. Party-pink Muscat de Frontignan with spicy whiffs, almost cloying sweetness despite the sparkling lift. Piquant rapsberry taking the edge off the sweetness. These are friendly wallet, lowish alcohol wines. Ideal as an aperitif, also good with spicy foods, desserts, fruit and chocolate. Recommended maturation potential : 2 years maximum. Best when fresh and young. South African awards : Platter's SA Wines 2008 : **.
750 ml
6 bottles
100% Muscat de Frontignan
Well drained alluvial sand soil; Karoo.
15 to 25 year old vines on 4-wire Perold trellising system. Drip irrigation controlled by a computer system through meters and tensiometers.
Harvesting is done by hand. Harvested at 22 degrees Balling. Yield 16 tons per hectare.
Style : A light dry blended fruity sparkling wine, with a weet red from Muscat depicting the colour-coded butterflies labels. Vinification : Artificial injection of carbon dioxide into the wine takes place. The wine and the syrup are chilled and the carbon dioxide is administered through a porus "candle". This then dissolves in the wine. It is stored in pressure resistant tanks, filtered and bottled under pressure. R/S : 80 g/l.
2 years maximum
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