Sadie Family Wines

Columella

Name: Columella
Brand: Sadie Family Wines
Price: 1599 ZAR
Availability: OutOfStock

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Red Blend•Swartland•South Africa

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Taste profile

Type

Red Blend

On the palate

𝐒𝐡𝐢𝐩𝐩𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐧𝐨𝐭𝐞: All Sadie Family Wines orders will be shipped from the second week of July 2026. "This 2024 Columella shows the customary Mediterranean spicy herbal aromas, with peppery notes and violet accents. It has a lot of fresh red fruit, mulberry, and graphite aromas, along with some dried figs. On the palate the wine displays chalky firm tannins. We believe it is some of the best and most complex tannins we have managed to capture in Columella. The tannins and mouthfeel have been our absolute focus for the past eight years, and we have spent much time studying the various post-fermentation extraction points and pressing dates." – Eben's Release Notes 2026

Red Fruit

Mulberry

Graphite

Violet

Cultivar

Syrah/Shiraz, Mourvèdre, Grenache, Carignan, Cinsault, Tinta Barocca, Pinotage

Region

Swartland

Appellation

Swartland

Country

South Africa

Alcohol

14%

Residual sugar

1.8 g/L

Cellaring potential

8 to 20 years

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Our Signature wines spearhead our viticultural and vinicultural developments and the yearly renewed implementation of more finite and precise workings. The incremental growth of Mourvèdre, Carignan, Cinsaut, Tinta Barocca, and Pinotage in the final blend has contributed much to the depth and complexity of the tannins. The fruit purity has also been lifted, with remarkable freshness on the palate. The Columella has taken on many dimensions and interpretations over time, with quality being the central pillar, but more recently, the response to terroir has been more linear.

Hand sorting of individual berries of the entire production in small “strawberry” cases. Fermentation takes place spontaneously in 3300 litre open concrete fermenters for about three weeks at a temperature of 24 °C and is then followed by a post-fermentation maceration of another three weeks. No additions are made to the fermenting wine. Pressing takes place in a traditional basket press and the wine is transferred to the barrel (10% new) for malolactic fermentation.

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.

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