Noble Late Harvest

Sweet dessert wines pair well with almost any cheese, but the classic match of blue cheese with preserved fig on the side will leave you mesmerized. Also any sweet dessert like apple pie or tiramisu will go very well.

2016 Harvest might have been a challenging year, but it gave birth to our first GOLDEN delight.

The wine did not undergo malolactic fermentation, but rather prevent fermentation from occurring once the desired sugar level had been reached. The wine also did not undergo wood maturation. The wine was blended, stabilised and sterile-filtered before bottling

The botrytis cinerea (noble rot) grapes were strictly selected and harvested by hand at 35o to 40o Balling during April. The fruit was destemmed in the cellar prior to pressing, given extended skin contact and then cool-fermented in temperature-controlled stainless steel tanks at 16°C for a period of six weeks.

The 27 hectare wine estate from the Dutch entrepreneurial couple Marianne & Fons Aaldering, no strangers to the travel catering industry as founders of MarFo and Delta Dailyfood, is located in picture-perfect Stellenbosch South Africa and boasts a unique and special microclimate which results in flourishing vines producing top-quality grapes. Aaldering Vineyards & Wines is very happy to embrace Pinotage at the Aaldering Estate, by virtue of the sense of proud of South Africa and its varietal. The perfect terroir to cultivate top quality fruit and to aim for preserving the intrinsic quality of the grapes into the bottle makes it that Aaldering takes part in the cult revolution of top quality Pinotage wines. The treasure that you will find in Aaldering wine is the dazzling fruit expression, with finesse and elegance.