Pinot Noir Reserve

Grilled salmon or tuna. Lighter, mildly prepared beef of pork.

This isolated vineyard in Overberg is planted in rocky shale soils. It is surrounded by mountain and covered with misty blanket of fog in the morning.

Barrel matured for 14 months in small French oak. Approximately 20% new and the balance in neutral oak.

All grapes were hand-picked into small lug-boxes. The grapes were destemmed and given hand punch-downs. About 20% of the wine was whole-bunch fermented.

Kara-Tara is a joint-venture between Rüdger van Wyk (2018 Diners Club Young Winemaker of the Year) and José Conde of Stark-Condé Wines. Translated from the Khoisan, the language from the first people in Southern Africa, it means “deep dark shadows” and refers to the Karatara river that runs through Rüdger’s home town, near Knysna which is located in South Africa, on the Cape South Coast, facing the Indian Ocean.