The Fledge & Co. Hoeksteen 2018

Hoeksteen is borne from dry farmed Stellenbosch bush vines grown upon a decomposed granitic soils with views of Table Mountain. 2018 was a highly concentrated & tiny vintage due to crippling drought. Hand harvested, skin contact, gentle pressing, barrel fermentation & matured sur lie for 9 months, blended & four months in tank prior to bottling . Another nuanced vintage with bruised green apple, citrus, pear skin ‘n baking spice with great length, chalky finish and grippy tannic tug. Enjoy as aperitif or roast fowl, fine fromage & charcuterie. Please decant or cellar until 2025+

The Fledge & Co. -Adventures in Chenin

A single terraced vineyard, dry farmed bush vines planted in 1982 on highly weathered granitic soils upon a Bottelary Hills slope over looking Table Moutain - benefitting from cooling breezes off the icy Atlantic. A single barrel of 1982 bush vine fruit from a dry farmed site in Faure within earshot of False Bay was added to the blend, due to it being the last vintage from this site. Soils are a combination of decomposed granite & iron stone.

The soils are ancient decomposed granitic based soils with high portion of clay & iron stone /ferricrete.

All fruit is hand harvested at dawn - picking is determined on sugar, acid, pH and most importantly taste. The fruit is picked in large format bins and transported back to our cellar in temperature controlled truck.

The fruit is destemmed & crushed into press, allowed skin contact for three hours, gentle pressing with free-run juice cold settled overnight. Next morning the juice is racked off high portion of lees into large format old French oak barrels, inoculated with a neutral yeast strain & cool fermented for three weeks. Post ferment, the wine is racked into 228L old French oak barrique for 9 months sur lie ageing, prior to blending into stainless steel tank with portion of fine lees prior to bottling unlined unfiltered.

Wine is matured sur lie (with high portion of fine lees) for 9 months in 228L old French oak, whereafter the blended wine spent 4 months in stainless steel tank with fine lees prior to bottling unfined unfiltered.