Gramadoelas Grenache Blanc

A great choice with more steak-like fish including tuna steaks, swordfish.

The national average yield for the 2025 vintage was 12.9 ton/ha, while our vineyard's combined average is 4.4 ton/ha. In Gramadoelas, we're at 5,5 ton/ha for 2025, slightly up from 2024, still aligning with our 10-vintage average. In general the 2025 Klein Karoo vintage showcases a smooth, well-managed harvest, marked by dry ripening conditions, adequate water supply in mountain springs, and exceptional fruit quality. Despite minor delays, the season offers high potential for leaner and fresher wines. The season started with excellent dormancy break from sufficient cold units, followed by an even but delayed bud burst. Strong vegetative growth and optimal dry harvest conditions ensured healthy grapes with high leaf to fruit ratios than 2024. Full dams and late rainfall secured supplementary irrigation availability, though early spring growth lagged due to cold, wet soils. Harvest timing ran about 10 days late.

Left on its fine lees for 9 months - before racking and bottling. We value the use of elegant fine lees aging and minimal use of SO2 (total < ppm). Partial MLF.

Hand harvested. predominately whole bunch pressed, with small portion of slow delayed destemmed pressing - capturing texture. Spontaneously natural fermented in larger format older barrels, with 40% in SS tank. Both, 400's and 500's, were used for ferment and aging.

Bernhard Bredell: Why the name “Scions of Sinai”? Scion = In plant biology referring to the top part of a plant/vine that exists above the ground. We say “The Scion cultivar of that vine is Chenin blanc and the rootstock cultivar is Richter 99″. In old English literature the word “Scion” also refers to “the descendant of…”. Making it applicable to refer to myself as a “scion” from Sinai Hill as well as the vines. Plural “Scions”. Pronounced: SIGH-ENS. Sinai = Referring to Sinai Hill not the famous biblical mountain but the folk name for the foothill in the lower Helderberg region of Stellenbosch where the Bredell’s have farmed with old dryland bushvines for many generations. Luckily some of them are still rooted and a great part of them owned by my cousin Pieter Bredell (also 7th generation Bredell). Pronounced: SIN-EYE. It’s me and these couple of old bushvines… together we are by definition the Scions of Sinai. The descendants of Sinai Hill.