Nudity Syrah (Voor Paardeberg)

This unusual Syrah comes from a single vineyard, rooted in ancient granite soils on the East facing slope of the famed Paardeberg mountain. These vines have been organically farmed for the better part of 134 years and achieved organic certification in 2010.

Through years of employing only natural viticultural methods, the proliferation of beneficial insects, microbes and indigenous vegetation in the vineyard has created a natural balance between these and the challenges nature throws our way each season. This eliminates the need for chemical fertilizers, fungicide or herbicides while developing the vines’ natural immune system. The 2018 season was dry and warm, which led to smaller berries and a significantly smaller crop.

Harvesting took place only by hand into 15kg lug boxes in the early morning so that cool, intact grapes could be transported to our cellar, protecting the purity of the fruit. The bunches were then individually hand sorted before being only lightly crushed. Fermentation occurred spontaneously through natural yeast in a large open-top fermenter. No addition of any kind was made during the vinification of this wine, no sulphur, no yeast, no additives of any type, exposing this wine to its most natural of states, to face the world unembellished, exposed and magnificent. This purest, natural and most naked state allowing all the nuances coming from the vineyard to be completely visible, nothing hidden, nothing added.