2 October 2019
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Ageing potential
This wine will continue to age for and can be drunk up to four years from vintage.
The Vineyard
Cabernet Sauvignon is mostly sourced from the Bottelary area of Stellenbosch, Agter Paarl and Swartland.
Winemaking
Fermented with Bordeaux yeast strains in tank with French oak staves, and then completed malolactic fermentation and maturation on staves for 4 months
Food suggestions
Excellent with a large variety of dishes, especially steaks, chops, home-made burgers, sticky roast pork belly and lasagne.
Total production 7500 x 6
2 October 2019
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Ageing potential
This wine should be drunk within 2-3 years of the vintage.
The Vineyard
Chenin Blanc is harvested from three separate vineyards in the Swartland region.
Winemaking
2018 was the fourth dry vintage on the trot. It was however quite cool coming into the harvest period. We adapted to the conditions of the vintage by making three separate batches of wine, the first from early picked fruit, and the second a riper portion fermented with a small number of French oak staves and a third component which spend a few months on lees. We opted for simple cold fermentation with natural yeast. The oak component makes up around 40% of the total blend. The three components had different flavours and textures from which we have endeavoured to produce a well- balanced interesting wine which is a joy to drink.
Food suggestions
The den Chenin Blanc is delicious on its own. The wine is beautifully balanced with concentrated flavour. It is a versatile partner at the table complementing classic dishes like coronation chicken, trout with almonds or even macaroni cheese. Great value for good everyday drinking with enough class for special dinners, high days and holidays.
2 October 2019
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Ageing potential
This wine can be enjoyed up to four years from vintage.
The Vineyard
The grapes for this wine have been harvested from farms in Paarl, Swartland and Breedekloof.
Winemaking
Pinotage was harvested over four weeks starting late January 2018. Most of the grapes were destalked and fermented in tanks with French and American oak staves. Malolactic and maturation was completed on staves.
Food suggestions
Pinotage is the best wine in the world to pair with Mexican dishes like fajitas or that glorious confection of chicken, chocolate, cumin seeds, smoky ancho chilies, pumpkin and sesame seeds – mole poblano. It is also very good with other flavoursome American regional specialties like Carolina pulled pork or smoky Texas B.B.Q beef rib. The wine also works with Moroccan flavours, Malaysian dishes and of course our local Cape cuisine.
2 October 2019
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Ageing potential
This wine is delicious as a young wine but will gain complexity and interest with a couple of years of bottle aging.
The Vineyard
Pinotage grapes were sourced from a block of older vines on Leeuwenkuil farm in Paarl, and a young block on Langvlei farm
Winemaking
We set out to make the most delicious and compelling dry rosé from Pinotage. The grapes are hand harvested into small baskets and taken to the cellar where a portion was whole bunch pressed and the rest destalked, gently crushed, and cooled before being left on skins for a couple of hours. Juice was then drawn off the skins and cold fermented in tank for this saigneé rosé.
Food suggestions
A superb multitasker. Especially good with peri peri prawn, Greek style lemon chicken, ratatouille, calamari, fish and chips, meze, tapas and just about anything else smoky, tangy and garlicky.
2 October 2019
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The vineyard
This wine is produced from two vineyards, one in Darling and the other in the Swartland.
Winemaking
Great care has been taken to ensure that the grapes were picked at the correct time.
It is blended from grapes grown on a cooler vineyards site in Darling and a warmer Swartland site. It received the best possible attention, being blanketed with CO2 throughout the crushing and pressing process.
Ageing potential
This wine should be drunk within three years of vintage.
Food suggestions
The den Sauvignon Blanc is delicious on its own or with simply served oysters on the half shell with brown bread and butter. Make yourself a lovely summer salad with mixed greens, Sgs, green grapes, radishes, chevin cheese and a mustard vinaigrette and pull up a large glass of this wine. Excellent with peri- peri chicken or prawns.
2 October 2019
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Ageing potential
This wine can be enjoyed within four to five years from vintage.
The Vineyard
The grapes for this wine have been harvested from Leeuwenkuil and Langvlei farms in Agter Paarl and Swartland.
Winemaking
Shiraz was harvested in the third and fourth week of Feb 2018. Most of the grapes were destalked and fermented in tanks with French oak staves, with malolactic and maturation being completed on staves. Approximately 20% of the wine was fermented in small open fermenters and hand-punched before being pressed off into small French and American oak barrels of varying ages.
Food suggestions
The den Shiraz is especially good with hearty French bistro cooking like grilled lamb chops with black olives, orange and fennel, pan fried duck breast with a fig and red wine butter sauce, Toulouse sausages with lentils or linguini with chorizo, tomato and roasted peppers.
