Kreatuur

Beef, Mature and hard cheese

De Kleine Wijn Kreatuur personifies a blend, a different and unique creature each vintage! This year we made a morish blend consisting of four traditional Rhône varietals, each bringing their own unique and characterful trait to the party that is Kreatuur. Vineyards selected from Hutton and Clovelly soils, a combination of decomposed granite and Table Mountain sandstone in the heart of the Winelands.

The wine is then matured in small, older 225L, 300L & 500L French oak Barrels for 12 months being blended and bottled. No fining takes place before a sterile filtration into bottle.

All grapes are picked by hand with fermentation taking place separately in open fermenters. About 80% whole-bunch and all natural ferments across the board. A maximum of two punch-downs are done daily with a short skin maceration following completion of fermentation.

De Kleine Wijn Koöp is at the helm of winemaker Wynand Grobler and his wife, Anya. The Groblers regard the 'cooperative' as a two-man family business and run the business from a small cellar and a dedicated team in the heart of Paarl. Wynand does not care much about corporate structures or large cellar teams - his main goal is to be personally involved in the winemaking process. He produces only small quantities of wine with prestigious grapes, and some mysterious vineyards from Stellenbosch, Swartland, Walker Bay, Franschhoek, Piekenierskloof and Paarl.