Alheit Vineyards, Cartology 2021

£35.00 (75cl)

Only 6 left in stock

SKU: SAAL0021B

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Cartology has become a staple offering. It serves as a poster child wine for our project (and I dare say for Cape heritage wines in general). In theory it should be able to make an excellent version pretty much every vintage. It’s the best possible introduction to their wines. As a rule, the Cartology parcels are dry farmed bushvines, with a minimum age of 30 years, although most are around 40 years old. We're extremely picky about the parcels that are allowed to make this wine. To illustrate this point, it happens sometimes that even vineyards that feature regularly in Cartology are declassified if they have a mediocre vintage.

About the producer

Based on Hemelrand, a beautiful mountain farm situated high on the Hemel-en-Aarde Ridge in Walker Bay, Alheit Vineyards is owned by Chris and Suzaan Alheit and is very much a family affair. Inspired by their time spent working in vineyards across Europe, Chris and Suzaan are passionate about producing wines with a true sense of place, using minimal intervention in the vineyard and winery. They specialise in producing hand-crafted whites, as they believe that the grape varietals have the right level of transparency and purity to express their origins and the results speak for themselves.