The Field Blend

The 2018 was the fourth consecutive year of serious drought in the Cape winelands. Yet, we didn’t have any drastic heat spikes during the harvest period and the vines showed little stress despite the severe dry conditions. The overall fruit quality was excellent, with very small berries producing great concentration of flavours. This vintage continues as previously with Chenin being dominant in the blend.

Aged for 8 months in barrel and tank with regular lees stirring.

Almost entirely barrel fermented (90%), but with a touch of an “egg” fermented component adding body. We handled it as carefully and as naturally as possible, giving the wine only a light fining and bottling with minimal filtration.

Stark-Condé Wines is located in the picturesque Jonkershoek Valley in Stellenbosch. It is a dramatic valley with steep changes in vineyard elevation from 150 to 600 metres making for a range of sites with distinct characteristics. At Stark-Condé they stick to traditional winemaking methods: open tank fermentation meticulous sorting of grapes hand-punchdowns basket pressing and maturation in small French oak barrels.