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Lozärn Carménère Ivan S 2022

R593.00

Region: Robertson

Tasting note:

“A wine to savor and enjoy with good company. With the first swirl of your glass, a beautiful array of cloves, nutmeg, and cocoa intrigues your senses. The palate is treated to vibrant red fruit and a soft umami touch, all presented in a strikingly vivid color. This wine pairs perfectly with leaner meats such as duck or pork, and is beautifully complemented by a delicate cherry reduction.” – Winemaker

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“The Lozärn wines honour Smuts family matriarch Kay – as a child, Kathleen May, known as Kay, relocated to Lucerne, Switzerland with her mother and sister during World War I and the name of the town would come to mean much to her. At the age of 21, she married Sebastian Smuts and they ended up in Somerset West, were Smuts managed Vergelegen. Kay’s urge to farm herself saw them buying land in the Robertson valley in 1923, the farm called Lucerne and today, Kay’s grandsons and great-grandsons run various agricultural businesses in the greater Robertson area.

As for Lozärn in particular, this came about when the Smuts family acquired Bonnievale farm Doornbosch in 2017 –winemaker Salome Buys-Vermeulen and husband Sybrand had been running the property since 2012 making wine under the Fröhlich label but the name was then changed to Lozärn, a Swiss German take on Lucerne.

What sets the Lozärn range apart is that historic Bordeaux variety Carmenère features prominently. Buys-Vermeulen became taken with the variety and a vineyard was planted in 2014, total production of a single-variety wine now at 1 300 bottles while it also features in the range’s Cape Bordeaux Red Blend.” – CE

They dedicated this unique varietal wine to Ivan Sedgwick, only son of Kathleen and Sebastian Smuts. Lozärn Wines was the first cellar in 2017 to release a single Carménère in South Africa. This is a very unique and rare cultivar for South Africa, with only a few hectares planted in total. Carménère is part of the Bordeaux family of cultivars, but was mistaken to be Merlot up until 1994 in Chile, before it was re-claimed as a cultivar in 1998.