Lynx wines is a new small winery in Franschhoek. We visited the winery on our tour in the wine country and it turned out to be a truly great experience. The first wines were produced in 2003, mostly reds as the first white, a Viognier, has just been released.
Dieter Sellmeyer, previous engineer, treats his wine like small babies. He uses open concrete fermenters and spends lots of time during the fermentation process. He manually punches the skins back down to minimise pump-overs and allows 25 days of skin contact thanks to cold soak of 7 days, fermentation 7 days and maceration 7 to 10 days. All the red wine is then oaked in new french oak (1 to 3 years old) for 12 months before being bottled.
Dieter was a very friendly guy , he showed us around and lead us through the tasting of his wines. I was most impressed by the purity and elegant style of his wines which meant that I had to order three cases!
At Lynx, they make the following wines and if you want to visit, an appointment is required I believe;
Cabernet Sauvignon (leather, dark fruit, delicate)
Shiraz (spicy, dark clean fruit, big vanilla taste)
Xanache (Bordeaux blend with cherry smell))
Merlot (not tried)
Viognier (fantastic and fermented for 6 months!)
Rosado (very clean strawberry rose wine)
Sweet Lynx ( sweet red from grapes forgotten on vine)
We will come back with more details about some of the wines. Below his own web page. Again we must thanks Lynx for a lovely experience!
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