Elgin Vintners has released their first single cultivar Semillon!
A long-standing love affair with the versatile Semillon grape has come to fruition for Elgin Vintners winemaker and business manager Dr Marinda Kruger with the release of her personal passion project – MIRRA Semillon 2021.
The name MIRRA is both an affectionate diminutive of Marinda’s given name and derived from Latin, meaning admirable, peaceful, wonderful.
MIRRA 2021 is available exclusively from the Elgin Vintners tasting room and online at at R400 per bottle.
The best of the single vineyard Semillon, in terms of mouthfeel and development potential, was selected for the maiden vintage of MIRRA, part undergoing natural fermentation on the skins in a clay amphora and part in a single French oak barrel. Blending took place after nine months, with the wooded component broadening the palate of the linear Semillon, Marinda said.
Already complex and intriguing, the wine will age gracefully into full maturity over the next five to 10 years.
