Painted Wolf Lycaon Swartland Grenache 2019

ageing : This wine drinks well in youth but will improve over time gaining additional complexity for at least five years from vintage.

This wine’s name “Lycaon” comes from the scientific name for an African Wild Dog, Lycaon Pictus, and is derived from the Greek word Lycos for a wolf. This is an apt association for our Grenache, which is hand-made from organically certified grapes using traditional techniques. We have a wine that combines “sauvage”, elegance and energy in a spicy brooding finish.  The label illustration is derived from a page in an 18th century book on hunting in Southern Africa, which has been a major contributor to the demise of Wild Dogs. They are now our rarest big mammal and are steadily edging towards extinction.

Painted Wolf Wines supports the conservation of the highly endangered painted wolf (African wild dogs) and the protection of the diminishing wild spaces of Africa, through its donations to the EWT and Tusk.