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The wine is balanced and well-integrated and the bodacious wine pairs well with lamb-shank roasts and hearty, soulful oxtail potjie accompanied by samp, porcini mushrooms and mature cheese shavings.

Grapes from various vineyards in the Western Cape chosen to meet the winemaker’s requirements in creating a profile for each specific vintage. Travelling through different wine regions, the winemaker searches for pockets of excellence to find some gems along the way. Each vineyard offers a unique fingerprint aimed at our quest to create wines of individual character with their own personality.

The wines are blended and undergo fermentation and maturation in new French oak barrels for 15 months.

From low yielding, terroir-specific sites only the best grapes are hand picked to ensure fine and pure fruit. In stark contrast to our awarded 2017 vintage, this Bordeaux-style blend is Petit Verdot driven. Punch-down and aerated pump-over methods are used resulting in both robust tannins for excellent structure and concentration, which also ensures the extraction of deep colour.

Vineyards have been shown to possess unique fingerprints in centuries gone by. Every block of vines expresses distinctive characteristics, and the finest winemakers know that viticulture starts in the soil. In 2010 our winemaker began travelling in search of the purest fruit from first growth appellations across the wine regions of the Western Cape. Every new vintage becomes a quest to find the different components to make up the perfect blend that meets the winemaker’s requirements. The pursuit of excellence began in 2011 when Quest aspired to showcase a premium range of iconic French blends, styles and varieties grown and expressed through South African soils.