Fume Blanc

Ideal partner to fresh seafood, roast free range Sunday chicken, fine fromage & charcuterie or an aperitif.

The Stellenbosch Sauvignon combines fruit from high-lying Simonsberg vines on decomposed granite & Faure vines on a combination of granitic and ironstone soils buffeted by the wind off False Bay. The Elgin fruit originated from a now long-gone vineyard grown in a combination of Bokkeveld shale & decomposed sandstone. Agulhas Sauvignon and Semillon vines rooted in a combination of sandstone, Bokkeveld shale & ferricrete soils at the foot of Africa buffeted by howling ocean winds. A mild winter with moderate rainfall brought some relief, spring winds & a devastating heat wave followed by extreme late cold snap caused some strife, warm summer with intermittent spell of rain & heat, but otherwise a mildly challenging vintage resulted healthy clusters of extremely flavoursome fruit. ’19 is an unshowy showstopper.

The blended wine is kept at 12°C in tank for six months prior to bottling unfined & unfiltered, under DIAM10 to preserve the essence of the site, vintage & vines. Only yeast & small amounts of sulphur are added during vinification.

Each parcel is hand harvested at dawn, crushed and allowed a brief period of skin contact prior to gentle pressing, free-run juice settled overnight at low temperature, racked off to old 400L & 300L French oak barrels with a portion of fine lees and inoculated with non-interventionist yeast, cool-fermented over three weeks. Post-ferment the wines are racked to 225L old French oak with a fair portion of fine lees & allowed about seven months of maturation prior a barrel selection & blending to tank with a portion of fine lees.

The Fledge & Company is what happens when two folk don’t quite enjoy the status quo when it’s your nature to go against the grain when you need to forge a path mostly in the unknown eschewing common place convention and taking that first defiant flight from the nest. Hand crafting old school wines of integrity unfaltering quality defying perceptions of origin and being guided solely by the vine to showcase our passion – these are The Fledge & Co.’s reasons for being.