Anyone who knows Natte Valleij winemaker Alex Milner knows that he is an avid cycler, and it was on a 165 kilometre ride from Natte Valleij to the West Coast that Alex stumbled across a lonely block of Cinsault surrounded by wheat fields, locked behind innumerable gates. The vineyard was planted in 1978 (we think) on Malmesbury shale and decomposed granite soils.

• South Africa    Cape West Coast    Darling

• 100%

  Cinsault

   

• Alcohol

    13.0%

• Natural wine

• Oak

    No oak contact

• Production

    800 bottles

• Vegan

• Vineyard planted

    1978

• Award

    94 points, Tim Atkin MW "Rose petal and violet aromas segue into a grippy, layered palate"