Franschhoek Cellar The Old Museum MerlotFranschhoek Cellar is a beautiful estate on the Franschhoek Valley wine route of South Africa, and is home to an exquisite range of award winning wines created to fully complement their cuisine. The Old Museum is their Merlot offering using grapes hand harvested in February from vines aged between 8 to 26 years. Regular pump overs and punch downs during fermentation, followed by 8 to 12 months in French oak. Bright ruby red with attractive plum and

with careful selection of the fruit to ensure that only the ripest

the wine is filtered and final assembly made

before ending on a sweet

plum and blackcurrant

plum and blackberry precede a smooth palate with balanced tannins

15 miles from Edinburgh

The ample palate is medium-bodied with sweet dried currants for a soft

The result is a wine of lemon appearance that shows true typicity of the Verdicchio grape at its best

Garganega is the main grape used to produce the premium Soave wine

This beautifully presented gift set includes a 70cl bottle in a gift box with two handsome glasses which have no bases

distilled in traditional copper pot stills

Jean-Michel Gaunoux et Fils source grapes from hand tended vines with green harvesting carried out at the beginning of ripening season