Sic Transit Gloria Mundi

Perfect for roast meat or beef.

Sic Transit Gloria Mundi is selected for rare intensity, clarity of expression, and potential to reflect the estate’s underlying viticultural principles. The vineyards and grapes selected for this wine vary from vintage to vintage, and the style may vary significantly from year to year. Each unique vintage is a rare glimpse of a specific terroir. The vineyards selected in 2015 have deep loamy soils with large stones, boulders, and breaks which require the vines to develop deep root systems and produce complex, multi-layered wines.

Following racking, the wine was matured for 24 months in 225 liter French oak barrels. The wine was fined with the lightly salted whites of six eggs prior to bottling, and was not filtered. Some natural sedimentation may occur in bottle.

This grapes were harvested by hand into 18kg lug boxes and sorted manually for consistency, ripeness, and the removal of leaves from the bunches. The destemmed bunches were fermented in 600 liter stainless steel tanks with daily remontage and délestage. The wine is composed almost entirely of free run juice, hand pressing being used to gently obtain a small press fraction of less than 5% of the total volume.

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.