Hoeksteen

A perfect partner for roast fowl, fresh crustaceans & other denizens of the deep, firm fromage or enjoy as an aperitif. Serve chilled & best decanted.

Two low yielding bush vines plots planted 4.5km from False Bay rooted in poor ferricrete (iron stone) & decomposed granite soils; combine for the first time with old dry land bush vines rooted in the granitic soils of the Bottelary Hills. Hand harvested at dawn from select sections of each site. The Cape’s earliest vintage in 50 years - characterised by super clean, uniformly ripe, concentrated fruit & wines with buxom flavour.

Post- fermentation Bottelary (45%) & False Bay (55%) were racked with a portion of fine lees to a small 2750l tank & left undisturbed for 13 months prior to bottling unfined & unfiltered under screw cap to preserve the essence of the site, vintage & vines.

False Bay fruit harvested for ripe plush buxom fruit, while Bottelary harvested for structure, freshness & citrus acidity. Crushed directly into our small pneumatic press & allowed a few hours skin contact prior to gentle pressing, thereafter the juice was settled overnight prior to racking with a fair share of fine lees, inoculated & allowed a 3 1⁄2 week cold ferment in stainless steel.

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.