Columella

A deep wine to be served with rich venison poitjie.

Columella is a blend of five different soil types. In total we have eight vineyards.

This wine is the result of 12 months ageing in barrels (8% new) and thereafter an additional 12 months in old, big oval casks.

We bring grapes from all our soils in, and the only thing we do is sort out any raisins. We have a long maceration on the skins of seven to eight weeks. We do one pigeage a day by foot for the first 10 days, and then when the solution gets to liquid with a pigeage stick, once a day. I don’t want to over-extract. We press in a basket press.

The Sadie Family strives for wines that are fresh flavorsome refined harmonious and balanced and aims to offer drinking pleasure at the highest level of quality at any stage of a wine's life: the wine-drinker's eagerness for a further glass is their measure of achievement! The Sadie's two wines Columella and Palladius originate in the soils in the Swartland region which stretches north of Cape Town between Durbanville and Piketberg inland from the Atlantic Ocean and centered on the town of Malmesbury. Importantly the area has a remarkably stable climate allowing a consistent level of quality each year in subtly different vintage conditions.