Naude, Werfdans Cinsault, 2017 so031023 portuguese round up offer crystalline fruit

crystalline fruit

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Naude, Werfdans Cinsault, 2017 so031023 portuguese round up offer crystalline fruitIan Naude works almost exclusively with old Cape bush vines, and Werfdans is his old vine Cinsault from Darling, on the cool Atlantic side of the Western Cape. The fruit comes from vines planted in the late 1970s, vinified with almost no intervention beyond a touch of sulfur, then patiently held back: 2017 was only released six years after vintage, and arrives now at eight years on, fully in stride. It's everything great Cape Cinsault should be: