The Gateway Old Vine Colombar Straw Wine

Notes of apricots, honey suckle and straw. The sweetness is balanced out with a racy acidity.

Planted in tukula/westleigh soils with good water holding capacity. The climate in Franschhoek is warm and temperate. In winter, there is much more rainfall than in summer. The average temperature is 16.4 °C and the rainfall here averages 912 mm per annum.

Tukula & Westleigh, next to the Franschhoek river.

Picked at optimal ripeness of between 21 and 22 balling and gently placed on outdoor pallets stacked with straw, exposed to sunlight. The grapes were left to dry on the straw for 3-4 weeks until the sugars reached the desired 35-40 balling. Thereafter, the straw was disgarded and the grapes, by then raisins, were basket pressed and place into barrels to ferment and age into liquid gold.