Stark-condé Wines

The Field Blend

Name: The Field Blend
Brand: Stark-condé Wines
Price: 295 ZAR
Availability: InStock

White Blend from Stellenbosch, South Africa

R250

Bottle size:

750 ml

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The fruit quality in 2021 was excellent - small berries with loose bunches, resulting in wines with bold flavours and a tight acidity and minerality. This wine is almost entirely barrel fermented, with a small portion being aged in concrete egg to add richness. We handled the wine as carefully and naturally as possible, giving it only a light fining and then bottling with minimal filtration. It is lead by Roussanne giving the wine a beautiful mouthfeel, a light floral perfume and a very fine tannin on the palate. This is the tenth vintage of this wine and the vineyard seems to only get better.

Minerality

Floral

Pear

White Peach

We have one block on the farm - the bottom vineyard, just as you drive into our gate - that is quite different from all the other blocks. Because it sits at the bottom of a steep slope as well as being very close to the river, it has a number of different geological influences: there are multiple soil types in this small block. Faced with this difficult situation, we tried to turn it into a positive and decided to plant a mix of varieties that could be picked together to make up one wine.

Stark-condé Wines

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.