Merlot

This wine pairs wonderfully with game meats such as pigeon, springbok, or kudu.

The clay-rich soil of our Merlot vineyard is interspersed with gravel, facilitating even drainage and forcing the vines to develop deep root systems. The vineyard is a model of even ripening. We give our Merlot vineyard a great deal of attention, especially with respect to leaf-plucking, shoot combing, and cluster selection. These actions are done manually two to three times per year during the growing season in order to expose the berries to the sun evenly, to reduce Merlot’s propensity for herbaceous aromas, and to ensure optimal ripening during harvest.

We strive for balance between deep, luscious flavours and elegant freshness. Fermented on the skins, the wine is gently pressed and left to 225 litre French oak barriques for 18 months. It is racked twice during this period, and bottled with minimal intervention.

Noble Hill is an organic estate grower on the slopes of the Simonsberg mountains. We follow a regenerative farming philosophy and make delicate, fresh wines with a mineral structure. Our wines are fruitful structured elegant and above all authentic to their origin. Noble Hill is located on the the granitic northern slopes of the Simonsberg mountains which have produced South Africa’s finest wines for more than 300 years.