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Ideal to be enjoyed chilled on its own and will complement vegetable dishes, salads, seafood, pork and slightly spicy or aromatic foods.

Trellised and irrigated vineyards, Spruitdrift area, Olifants River, West Coast, South Africa. Chenin 11 years old and Grenache Blanc 4 years old. Well drained loam and red sand mix with some clay spots on a broken hardpan layer.

After 10 months on the fine lees, the separate wines were racked to tank, blended and bottled with a very coarse filtration.

The grapes were hand picked in the morning and pressed to tank where the juice was chilled and settled for two days. Both cultivars were fermented naturally in a combination of old 300L French oak barrels and tanks.

Cape Rock Wines is situated between the towns of Vredendal and Klawer 300km north from Cape Town and 30 km inland from Doringbaai on the West Coast of South Africa. We grow a variety of red and white grapes such as Syrah Grenache Mourvèdre Carignan Cabernet Sauvignon Grenache Blanc Roussanne Marsanne Viognier and Colombard. The vineyards are located on a single 11-hectare farm just above the banks of the Olifants river floodplain.