David & Nadia

Elpidios

Name: Elpidios
Brand: David & Nadia
Price: 410 ZAR
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Rating: 93 (1 reviews)

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Red Blend•Swartland•South Africa

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Taste profile

Type

Red Blend

On the palate

“Elpidios is a red version of Aristargos in a sense, using five varieties from nine different vineyards. Fermented with 40% whole bunches, it’s dominated by Grenache, supported by 31% Syrah, 13% Carignan and 1% each of Pinotage and Cinsault. Stony, grippy and chiselled, it has savoury tannins, lots of granitic intensity and plum, red berry and cranberry flavours. Will age well, too.” – Tim Atkin MW

Plum

Cranberry

Herbal

Pot Pourri

Cultivar

54% Grenache Noir, 31% Syrah/Shiraz, 13% Carignan, 1% Pinotage, 1% Cinsault

Region

Swartland

Appellation

Swartland

Country

South Africa

Alcohol

13.5%

Residual sugar

1.4 g/L

Cellaring potential

2 to 17 years

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The 2021 vintage again includes a portion of wine that was fermented and matured in a concrete vessel – Grenache, Syrah and Cinsaut. Along with the concrete vessels, the wine was also matured in old 500 L neutral French oak barrels and a 4 100 L foudre (Pinotage). The Elpidios is produced in similar fashion to our main Grenache noir in terms of long, gentle extraction, the use of 40% on average whole bunches and then pressed off.

David & Nadia is a family-owned project that focuses on producing wines from a spectrum of organically farmed, old and dry land bush vine vineyards from different areas with different soil types, and exclusively from the Swartland. David and Nadia are members of the Swartland Independent Producers with a natural and minimalistic approach in mind. In the cellar they work as naturally as possible and only add sulphur to their wines. It is all about the soil and vineyards after all. They believe in a pure, fresh and natural style where site and soil are at work with a minimal influence from a winemaking point of view.

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