Klipspringer

A perfect partner for a Sunday roast chicken with all the trimmings, fresh seafood, braised pork belly, firm fromage or enjoy as an aperitif. Serve chilled & best decanted.

Low yielding dry land bush vines planted in 1976 on decomposed granite atop the Paardeberg & 1975 on the leeward side of Kasteelberg in schist rich soils. Hand harvested at dawn & transported to the cellar. This vintage was highlighted by a drier than normal winter in 2014, warm dry spring & extremely early, but with near perfect harvest conditions.

Post-fermentation the wines were racked with a portion of fine lees to a small 2750l tank & left undisturbed for 12 months prior to bottling unfined & unfiltered under screw cap to preserve the essence of the site, vintage & vines.

All fruit was gently whole- bunch pressed in a small pneumatic press, thereafter the juice was settled overnight prior to racking with a fair share of fine lees, inoculated & allowed a 3 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.