Sadie Family Wines

Pofadder

Name: Pofadder
Brand: Sadie Family Wines
Price: 760 ZAR
Availability: OutOfStock
Rating: 95 (2 reviews)

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Cinsault•Swartland•South Africa

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Taste profile

Type

Red Wine

On the palate

𝐒𝐡𝐢𝐩𝐩𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐧𝐨𝐭𝐞: All Sadie Family Wines orders will be shipped from the second week of July 2026. "One of the most fascinating aspects of Cinsaut is the depth of texture and the load of tannin that this big berry grape holds, for as a norm one will expect this level of depth and texture and tannin on the smaller, berries varietals – but Cinsaut is a complete enigma in this regard. The wine may hold massive volumes of bright-red fruit and lifted aromatics; and upon smelling the wine the expectation is that it would be very soft on the pallet – but then firm tannins are met. This 2025 Pofadder is potentially one of our best bottlings ever. The wine displays the usual strawberry-red fruit flavours, but then secondary spicy, peppery, and aromatic notes, along with violets, fill the glass, and all this carries into the wine’s mouthfeel, building into an incredible, complex bottling from this site. We are delighted with the wine. Also, a slight early bottling reduction is in play." – Eben's Release Notes 2026

Strawberries

Red Fruits

Spice

Violet

Cultivar

Region

Appellation

Country

Alcohol

13.5%

Residual sugar

1.5 g/L

Cellaring potential

5 to 15 years

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After pressing the wine is transferred into some 28 year old conical wooden casks that do not impart any wooden flavours and the age and the saturation of the wooden staves also make for a very slow reaction of the resultant wine with oxygen. The wine is left on the lees for 11 months and then racked to another concrete tank for an additional month to settle clean. Two weeks prior to bottling we add 60mg/Litre of sulphur and bottle the wine from the fine lees.

In the late 19th century, and much of the 20th, Cinsault was the workhorse red variety that played an undeclared role in some great red blends. It was an obvious candidate for inclusion in any historical edition of wine, although it poses many challenges in the vineyard as well as in the cellar, including the difficulty of keeping yields down and attaining perfect ripeness, plus its very oxidative character. Simply put: one has to tread very carefully with all aspects of the cultivation and the production of Cinsaut but it does come with great reward if all is in check. We basically fill the concrete tanks whole cluster to about 30% and then destem 70% to get some juice in the tank to have the initiation of fermentation. The fermentation is for about 30 days on the skins and then we press the grapes in an old 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.

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