Product Description

The name itself is enough to scare a few folks off from this South African white, and it’s hard to guess what kind of reaction the so-old-school-it’s-kind-of-hip label will evoke.  But we found this Steen (what the South Africans call their Chenin)-meets-Vouvray beverage very intriguing and rather engaging.  A faint hint of honied sweetness wrapped in mineral and cirtus with a certain broadness on the palate brought about by lees contact and fermentation in concrete.  All from bush vines planted in granitic soils on hillsides in Kalmoesfontein, a number of them over 40 years of age, this is quite a distinctive wine for such a modest tab.