'T Voetpad 2018

This is surely the most isolated old vineyard in the country, presumably originally planted to supply the farmer and his neighbours. Its 1.4 hectares host varieties established in the Cape since the early days of European settlement, with most of the planting done between 1900 – 1928, and all of the vines grow on their own roots (even the chenin - untroubled by phylloxera).

The vineyard’s survival without irrigation is also extraordinary in this hot valley in the north of the huge Swartland region, near the village of Aurora and Elands Bay on the coast. Its precise location has allowed it to survive, with an underground river flowing beneath it from the mountains.

Heavily decomposed Table Mountain sandstone

’T Voetpad is a field blend of all the varieties - they are picked and pressed together, and co-ferment in old wooden casks.