David & Nadia Grenache Swartland 2022

David & Nadia Grenache Swartland 2022

Regular price£29.00
/
Tax included. Shipping calculated at checkout.

  • Pre-order item not currently in our shops. Orders will be despatched from 24/08.
  • 12+ available
  • Backordered, shipping soon

Please note: this is a pre-order item not currently in stock in our shops.

Order now and you will be notified once it is ready for delivery, collection or in bond transfer.

100% Grenache from five vineyards, mostly on granite with one site on schist, hand-harvested over 12 separate pickings. Around 60% of the fruit ferments as whole bunches and stays on skins for four weeks; 45% of the wine is fermented and matured in concrete, the rest in old 500-litre French oak barrels. Pale, light and elegant, with gentle tannins.

Product Details

Type Red
Country South Africa
Region Swartland
Producer David & Nadia
Vintage 2022
Grape Varieties Grenache
Bottle Size 75cl

David & Nadia

David and Nadia Sadie farm 16 hectares of Swartland old vines so low-yielding that most people would have given up on them years ago. It's a lot of work for little volume, but it's worth it. These are wines with real character - living wines with freshness, salinity, and a genuine sense of where they're from.

David and Nadia met at university, married in 2009, and spent years building the project around day jobs before going full-time. Home is Paardebosch, the farm and cellar they lease, where those old vines supply about half of what they need. The rest comes from growers they trust, farmed as close to organically as possible.

Winemaking is simple and traditional. Everything is fermented with wild yeasts and aged in concrete and neutral French oak. The result is pure old vine complexity, and a salinity that runs through the range.

From a side project built around day jobs, David & Nadia now sit alongside South Africa's very best.