Sadie Family Wines

Palladius 1.5L

Name: Palladius 1.5L
Brand: Sadie Family Wines
Price: 2500 ZAR
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White Blend•Swartland•South Africa

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Taste profile

Type

White Blend

On the palate

The 2021 Palladius displays early-picked stone fruit aromas with some citrus aromas in the background. Still, the minerality and salty qualities on the palate suggest that the wine will be slender for a while but will fill up over time in the bottle. Complex earthy aromas with lanolin layers make up the deeper aspects of aromatics. The palate of the wine is substantial, and the tannins and the acidity seem coiled up super tight. The current taste of the wine shows every intention of this vintage to be a longstanding wine with a big player mentality. Tasting through the lineup this year, this wine is just a standout.

Citrus

Stonefruit

Minerality

Earthiness

Cultivar

Roussanne, Marsanne, Verdelho, Semillon Blanc, Palomino, Grenache Blanc, Viognier, Chenin Blanc, Clairette Blanche, Semillon Gris, Colombard

Region

Swartland

Appellation

Swartland

Country

South Africa

Alcohol

13.75%

Residual sugar

2.1 g/L

Cellaring potential

4 to 6 years

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The grapes are picked across a great many vineyards and taken into our cold room on arrival at the cellar. The next day the grapes are sorted and the whole bunches go into the press. The pressing lasts 2 - 3 hours and in that period a margin of settling of the juice takes place in the collecting tank. The turbid juice is then transferred to concrete eggs of 725 litres and 400 – 1200 litre clay amphoras for the next stage of natural fermentation. The fermentation temperatures in the clay amphorae and the concrete eggs are very constant and we only control the ambient temperature at around 18 degrees throughout the season. Each wine basically ferments in its own time – in some cases it may take up to 18 months - and every vineyard is fermented in the same vessel every year.

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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