Cabernet Franc

Ideal with lamb, veal or sage butter pasta.

Anthonij Rupert Wyne was founded on the farm L’Ormarins in Franschhoek. Originally owned by the late Anthonij Rupert who passed away in 2001 the farm was eventually taken over by his brother Johann Rupert in 2003 and the brand named after him. It was Johann Rupert who constructed a state-of-the-art winemaking facility catapulting the farm into a prestigious wine estate and the beginnings of what is now a sprawling enterprise. The focus is on terroir specific wines and therefore the ranges are made from a number of sites. Each site offers optimum varietal specific growing conditions allowing Anthonij Rupert Wyne to adhere to the requirements of their different brands.

The vineyards selected for the Anthonij Rupert range of wines are all carefully chosen from very specific sites and soil types. The canopies of each block and the final yield of each site is managed precisely to express the character of the different varietal and location.

The wines were aged for 18 to 24 months in 225l French oak barrels (60% new), bottled unfiltered and finally bottle-aged for 3 years.

Grapes are handpicked, placed into small lug boxes and transported to the cellar in refrigerated trucks. In the cellar, the whole berries are double-sorted with an optical sorting line and then gravity-fed into French oak fermenters. Each batch is cold-soaked for a few days and then slowly brought up in temperature. Malolactic fermentation occurred naturally in the barrel.