Fleurfontein

Serve with mascarpone, pear & fig tart or cheese platter for dessert.

The KEERMONT FLEURFONTEIN (‘flower fountain’) derives its name from a beautiful spring on the farm. The Sauvignon blanc vineyard from which the grapes are sourced for this wine lies just below this spring. Raisins are produced by pinching the stem of the grape bunches while they ripen on the vine using a pair of pliers.

The wine is then left in these barrels to mature for 18 months.

This pinching action stops the translocation of fluids into and out of the grapes, which stops the grapes from becoming over ripe and allows them to dry naturally during the warm summer. The raisins are harvested a few weeks later and the syrupy juice is squeezed from them with a hard pressing process. The grape syrup is fermented by indigenous yeast in Hungarian and French oak barrels.

Agriculture in the Upper Blaauwklippen Valley can be traced back to 1694. In 2003 the Wraith family moved to the Western Cape from Gauteng and bought two adjacent farms. These two farms are now farmed as one Estate known as Keermont Vineyards. 2005 saw the start of a major vineyard planting programme on lands that had been fallow for a number of years. We planted 21Ha over seven years to add to an existing 8Ha of older vineyards. Our official maiden vintage was 2007 and in 2010 a spring water bottling plant on Fleurfontein was converted into a fully functional winery complete with offices tasting room processing facilities and barrel rooms.