A tight elegant wine with waxy stone fruit and soft spicy vanilla aromas. The wine has a lovely texture with a long finish and fresh acid keeping it vivacious and vibrant.
2020 Platter's Wine Guide - 4½ Stars2019 Old Mutual Trophy Wine Show - Trophy for Top Niche White Variety 2019 Tim Atkin SA Special Report - 92 Points
ageing :
This wine should be drunk within 2 to 3 years of the vintage.
We share our wine making equipment with Leeuwenkuil Family vineyards in their artisanal cellar. Through this relationship we have access to a number of the best vineyards in Paarl and the Swartland. Roussanne, native to the warmer regions of France’s Rhone valley, is a relative newcomer and still very rare in South Africa. There are fewer than 10 South African producers and we are proud to be ranked amongst the top.
Our friend Jenny Metelerkamp who lived with us at Lloyd’s camp, Botswana produced the fine Painted Wolf ink drawing for our logo and the pack labels.
Roussanne is grown by Willy Mostert on the south eastern side of the Paardeberg. The wines are planted on decomposed granite soils.
The wine was fermented at Koopmanskloof in Stellenbosch in 500 litre French oak barrels, about 50% of the vine has been fermented in brand new super tight grain barrels and the balance in neutral oak. After 9 months in wood, the wine was bottled. Only 2750 bottles were produced.
OTHER VINTAGES - not for sale