Terracura White

Best paired with all types of seafood, especially shellfish.

Sourced from two Old Vine Chenin blanc bush-vine vineyards on the Paardeberg, one in an exposed site at the top of a ridge with almost 360-degree views planted in 1983. The second block on a lower site in a Paardeberg valley planted in 1981. Both vineyards are situated in decomposed granite soils.

The wine was aged for 12 months in old French oak barrels and racked off the lees before bottling. Only a slight sulphur addition was made at bottling.

The grapes were all harvest by hand in the early hours. The bunches were whole bunch pressed into old French oak and fermented naturally without any additions.

The Silwervis wines are hands-off wines where we want the taster to experience a sense of place and terroir that being the Paardeberg which is featured as the back drop on the label of the wine. The label is a union of past and present. The past represented by the devil where people farmed aggressively and without care the present represented by the mermaid which highlights the delicate nature of our approach of natural winemaking.