Jack's Journey

An excellent companion to any red meat dish especially venison, lamb stew and roast pork belly. Compliments coq au vin, duck and smoked cuts of fish. Serve with salads, cheese or charcuterie platters. Also pairs well with Italian pasta and pizza. Delicious with spicy Indian cuisine.

A classic blend of Grenache Noir and Cinsault. Both cultivars are from low yielding, dry land vineyards and are ideally suited to their terroir resulting in a wine with concentrated colour and intense, yet fresh flavours.

The Grenache Noir and Cinsault cultivars were each harvested at optimal ripeness and fermented separately. The Grenache Noir was whole bunch fermented in an open stainless-steel tank and the wine finished fermentation on the skins and was pressed when dry. A portion of the Cinsault grapes went to open fermenters, mostly whole clusters with stalks intact. The grapes were cold soaked for 72 hours and inoculated with a Rhône yeast strain. Another portion was placed in open 500 litre barrels and naturally fermented. The different components were aged separately.

The heritage wines, all handcrafted from old character plantings on our farm in Wellington, celebrate a unique combination of the decomposed granite terroir, the exceptional light and the timeless mastery of the winemaker, and offer an enduring expression of the classic Cape wine tradition so globally envied of this region for centuries.