Noble Hill Merlot is grown on a single vineyard that has produced fantastic\u00a0wines vintage after vintage since being planted in 1998. The clay-rich soil\u00a0on which the vineyard is established has a high gravel content, which\u00a0facilitates even drainage. The vineyard is a model of even ripening.<\/p>\n
At Noble Hill they strive for balance between deep, luscious flavours and elegant\u00a0freshness. Fermented on the skins, the wine is gently pressed and left to 225-litre French oak barriques for 18 months. It is racked twice during this\u00a0period and ultimately bottled with minimal intervention. On the palate noblehill.com<\/a>\u00a0| Cosecha Restaurant<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Noble Hill Merlot is grown on a single vineyard that has produced fantastic\u00a0wines vintage after vintage since being planted in 1998. The clay-rich soil\u00a0on which the vineyard is established has a high gravel content, which\u00a0facilitates even drainage. The vineyard is a model of even ripening. At Noble Hill they strive for balance between deep, luscious flavours and elegant\u00a0freshness. Fermented on the skins, the wine is gently pressed and left to 225-litre French oak barriques for 18 months. It is racked […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"wprm-recipe-roundup-name":"","wprm-recipe-roundup-description":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3900],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-44468","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-drinking-2","wine_type-red","wine_region-simonsberg"],"acf":[],"brand_slug":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/test10.co.za\/C\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44468","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/test10.co.za\/C\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/test10.co.za\/C\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test10.co.za\/C\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4662"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test10.co.za\/C\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=44468"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/test10.co.za\/C\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44468\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":71619,"href":"https:\/\/test10.co.za\/C\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44468\/revisions\/71619"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/test10.co.za\/C\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44468"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test10.co.za\/C\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=44468"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test10.co.za\/C\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=44468"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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\n<\/strong>On the nose
\n<\/strong>Noble Hill Merlot has a deep, clear colour with an intense aroma of fruitful ripe plum\u00a0and a hint of tobacco leaf.<\/p>\n
\n<\/strong>Noble Hill Merlot is focused with lingering black fruit such as black cherry,\u00a0dark plum\u00a0and robust tannins\u00a0and possesses a full mouth-feel.<\/p>\n