Grenache

Pairs nicely with gamier dishes like duck, goose, and even guineafowl or pheasant especially with honey-roasted veggies like carrots and parsnips.

The 2021 vintage consists of five Grenache noir vineyards, with the core a vineyard from the Paardeberg planted in the early 2000’s. Joining this vineyard is another Paardeberg vineyard, recently planted on the north-eastern side of the Langkloof valley, overlooking the Aprilskloof. Another addition is a 2016 planted vineyard in schist of the Kasteelberg. This vineyard was planted on terraces high up in the mountain. Finally, Grenache noir from a farm north of Malmesbury was also added, a vineyard we have been working with since 2012. Twelve different pickings were done from the five Grenache noir vineyards.

The wine was pressed off and matured in old 500 L neutral French oak barrels as well as a 2 700 L concrete vessel for a year.

A component (60%) of the wine was fermented and matured in concrete. Juice was kept on the skins for four weeks pre- /during fermentation and 60% whole bunches were used. One punch down per day was done resulting in minimal and gentle extraction.

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.