Twiswind

Baked white fish, White meat, Smoked dishes, Complex salads

This co-planted vineyard is planted on a south-western slope of the Paardeberg. The weathered granite on this site is very coarse and extremely well drained on a rocky subsoil stratum. This leads to the early ripening of this vineyard, with ample natural acidity at the time of picking and relatively low alcohol levels at full ripeness.

After pressing, the wine is transferred to concrete tanks and old wooden vats to prevent the imparting of wooden flavours. After 11 months on the lees, the wine is racked to tank, and we add 65mg/Litre of sulphur and bottle the wine from the fine lees.

At this point, the vineyard is picked in two stages, and each of the two stages is cofermented and blended early for ageing. Our future goal is to pick the entire vineyard in one go and have all of the components co-fermented in one tank. We have made a number of vintages already, and each year, we get closer to the objective.

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.