Sadie Family Wines

Treinspoor

Name: Sonvang
Brand: Sadie Family Wines
Price: 760 ZAR
Availability: InStock

Tinta Barocca from Swartland, South Africa

R760

Bottle size:

750 ml

This vendor offers free shipping for orders above R1,500
Shipping: R99 nationwide

Due to the highly exclusive, and sought-after nature of this product, the vendor has requested to limit quantities per customer to ensure distribution.

20 in stock

Fulfilled by

Port2Port

𝐒𝐡𝐢𝐩𝐩𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐧𝐨𝐭𝐞: All Sadie Family Wines orders will be shipped from the second week of July 2026. "Fifteen years on and a great vintage later, we finally managed to produce the wine we believed we could achieve with this vineyard and variety. It was also our smallest harvest ever from this vineyard. The earthy, graphite aromas extend into cedarwood and lead-pencil aromatics, coated by ripe plum and purple-fruit aromas. This wine just sits at the perfect level of ripeness and definition." – Eben's Release Notes 2026

Graphite

Cedar Wood

Pencil Lead

Ripe Plum

This vineyard is located next to the old railway line (treinspoor) and was named accordingly. The very fragile, thin skin of Tinta Barocca is prone to sunburn, but in this case the old bush vines have formed a great framework to keep the bunches sheltered from the intense Swartland sun. Tinta Barocca has the textural nature of the Nebbiolo grape and the aromatic orientation of Syrah - a great combination. It produces wines of great character and expression that are built to last.

After pressing the wine is transferred into 45-year-old conical wooden casks that do not impart any wooden flavours. The age and the saturation of the wooden staves also make for a very slow reaction between the wine and oxygen. After 11 months on the lees the wine is racked to another concrete tank for an additional month to settle clean and 2 weeks prior to bottling we add 65mg/Litre of sulphur and bottle the wine from the fine lees.

Sadie Family Wines

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.