Paulina's Reserve Semillon

Red Thai chicken curry, roast gammon, smoked salmon, shellfish, and Asian cuisine.

Grapes are harvested from 28-year-old vines grown in sandy Tukulu soils on the banks of Franschhoek River. Very low yielding at 4.5tonnes/ha. Rickety Bridge Semillon grapes were hand harvested at 23.1 ̊ Balling into small crates.

The wine was then left to age for a total of 11 months in barrel.

Fermentation took place in the small French oak barrels, 15% new and 85% older barrels using a naturally occurring yeast. The must was fermented between 14 - 17 ̊C and the lees was stirred up daily for two months and then once every two weeks for the next 3 months thereafter.

Rickety Bridge Winery is an historic Franschhoek wine estate. Situated in the renowned Franschhoek valley the food and wine capital of South Africa the Rickety Bridge winery and Country Manor House nestle against the hillside overlooking vineyards and the majestic Wemmershoek Mountains. The land dates back to 1694 when the farms were granted to the first French Huguenots who settled in the area.