After looking for the right Cinsaut vineyard for quite some time, and with the help of a dear friend, winemaker Mick Craven finally discovered a special site up on the Bottelary Hills. The vines are 25 year old bush vines planted in Malmesbury shale. The Cinsaut grapes were destemmed before fermentation and the wine is pressed to 500L barrels for maturation. Bottled unfined and unfiltered with a touch of sulphur.
South Africa is often lumped together, under some arbitrary umbrella heading, with the other wine-producing regions of the southern hemisphere - South America, Australia, New Zealand, etc. This does a severe injustice both to the fantastic wines of South Africa and to the wine consumer: the region is peerless in its harmonious synthesis of New and Old World winemaking styles. Wines lately coming...
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