Blank BottleWestern Cape, South Africa
Why you'll love it
This wine exemplifies the thoughtful and unconventional approach of Pieter Walser, blending precision with personality. Retirement@65 consistently offers a beautifully balanced, quietly complex red that defies categorization. The 2023 vintage is especially vibrant and expressive, making it a great choice...
Blank Bottle Retirement@65 2023 is a perfumed and elegant red with crunchy red cherry, raspberry, wild herbs, white pepper, and floral notes. Light-bodied with silky tannins, bright acidity, and a fresh, savoury finish.
Charcuterie, duck, grilled pork, BBQ meats, roast chicken, or mushroom dishes.
Best known in Provence, Languedoc, South Africa
A soft, perfumed red grape from the south of France. Light in colour and tannin, with red cherry and floral notes. A key player in Provence rosé, and old vines in South Africa make lovely, silky reds.
Best known in Northern Rhône, Washington State
A dark, spicy red grape. Blackberry, black pepper, smoked meat and violets, with firm structure. Elegant and savoury in the Northern Rhône, in places like Hermitage and Côte-Rôtie; in Australia the same grape goes by Shiraz.
South Africa
South Africa's wine heartland, encompassing everything from the cool coastal valleys to the warmer inland sites. Extraordinarily diverse in climate and soil: a single appellation that contains multitudes — from delicate Elgin Pinot to muscular Swartland reds.
Western Cape, South Africa
Pieter Walser makes Blank Bottle wines in South Africa's Western Cape, with natural fermentation in amphora, concrete and old oak. He works often with old bush vines and likes an unconventional blend. We stock a wide range, from B.I.G. Cabernet to Orbitofrontal Cortex.
More from Blank Bottle →Retirement@65 is named after the vineyard's original owner. After decades of crop losses to different circumstances, the vineyard finally produced its first successful harvest, as the owner turned 65. Wine Making: The grapes were picked at optimal ripeness and cooled overnight to 4 degrees celsius. The next morning the grapes were hand sorted and partially de-stemmed. It fermented in open top fermenters, a combination of de-stemmed grapes and whole bunches. The juice underwent spontaneous fermentation and stayed on the skins for as long as possible. Aged in older oak for 8 months, blended and bottled.
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