Alheit VineyardsWestern Cape, South Africa
Why you'll love it
This 2024 vintage is getting high praise for its intensity and complexity. Great for collectors and lovers of serious Chenin.
Beautiful, broad nose of ripe citrus rind, blossom and apple. This wine is so easy to love. The palate shows a flourish of flavour and colour. That classic mineral undertow that marks it as a Skurfberg wine is ever present. Despite being light on its feet, this wine has real power.
Pairs beautifully with shellfish, creamy cheeses, roast chicken in herb butter or richer fish dishes. The acidity and minerality also makes it a brilliant match to dishes with citrus and herbs.
Best known in Loire Valley, South Africa
A brilliant shape-shifter. Bone-dry, off-dry, sweet or sparkling, always with vivid acidity running through it. Apple, quince, honey and a waxy texture, with the best examples from the Loire and South Africa ageing gracefully for many years.
South Africa
South Africa's wine heartland, encompassing everything from the cool coastal valleys to the warmer inland sites. Extraordinarily diverse in climate and soil: a single appellation that contains multitudes — from delicate Elgin Pinot to muscular Swartland reds.
Western Cape, South Africa
Alheit Vineyards makes minimal-intervention white wines in South Africa's Western Cape. Fruit is hand sorted and whole-bunch pressed, then fermented with wild yeast in cement eggs, foudres and old barrels. We stock a long list, including Cartology and Hemelrand.
More from Alheit Vineyards →The grapes were hand sorted and whole bunch pressed. The juice is very lightly settled, with no additions to the raw juice. Wild fermentation took place in foudres and also in old barrels of various sizes, mostly 400L. Fermentation lasted for about one month. The wine was kept on lees for around 12 months, then rested in tank on fine lees without fining for a further six months prior to bottling. Very simple, careful winemaking.
If you like these, you'll love this: Fans of mineral-rich Loire Chenin Blancs, Loire whites with age (Vouvray, Savennières) or those who enjoy complex single-vineyard whites with expressive terroir will really appreciate this.
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