Green apple, apricot, peach, hints of honey and floral aromas characterize a fresh and upfront nose. The palate is rich and well integrated with a lingering aftertaste.
Old bush vine vineyards grown on weathered granite are selected in cool areas of Stellenbosch with a good exposure to cooling sea breezes. Fruit is allowed to ripen to optimum ripeness and generally harvested once he fruit has attained a light yellow hue.
Vintage Extreme wind in December caused significant yield loss. The run up to the ripening season was exceptionally cool. A heat wave just prior to optimum ripeness caused sugar levels to rise very quickly necessitating rapid harvesting. Good natural acidity is indicative of the cool ripening season with unctuous ripe fruit characters as a result of the warmth around harvest time. Fruit is picked by hand at between 23.5⁰ and 24⁰ Balling and cooled overnight in the cellar to 10⁰C.
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