Melita Shiraz Light

Boland Cellar’s leading red grape variety, Shiraz, and its signature white grape, Chenin Blanc, are skilfully blended in an innovative wine style. This represents two significant aspects, namely a lighter style wine with low alcohol and a sustainable environmental venture which promotes and conserves healthy bee populations. For this, Boland Cellar has collaborated with Green pop Forests for Life Programme, an organisation to bring about real and meaningful benefits to agriculture and bee population health. The name Melita has its origin in ancient Greek mythology
and is derived from the goddess Melissa who was regarded as the keeper of bees and honey-making.

Shiraz is well suited to the Paarl region due to its warm climate, cooler breezy nights, coupled with shale and granite soils which retain water and provide fruit structure while promoting fresh acidity. The colour and flavour intensity of this Paarl Shiraz is a worthy expression of its heritage and quality.

Healthier options are today being sought by consumers for all categories of foods and beverages. This healthy trend is prevalent with wine consumers desiring lower alcohol levels in wine to support a healthy lifestyle while still expecting the typical flavours and tastes. For this purpose, alcohol levels are reduced by about 36% (to 9.5% A/V) by means of various interventions from vineyard to cellar, which include earlier harvesting to avoid high natural sweetness in the grapes as well as cutting-edge precision technology to remove some alcohol from the wine.
The entire process requires utmost care and skill to ensure that the final product is balanced and retains its typicity without compromising on flavour and character.

This soft, elegant Shiraz shows layers of ripe blackcurrant fruit and typical Shiraz flavours of spices and plums. An ideal choice with many foods and good gatherings thanks to its lively and sunny character.

2023
Alcohol: 9.5%
RS: 5.4g/l
TA: 6.22
VA:0.65
pH:3.35