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2021 Mother Rock 'Liquid Skin', Swartland, South Africa
$35.00
All the grapes are grown from one single vineyard on the Paardeberg Mountain, south of Malmesbury. The vineyard is owned by Barry Schreiber and farmed by his daughter Franziska Wickens, whose husband Jasper produces the Swerver Wines from the vineyard. A small handful of other producers, notably John Seccombe, of Thorne & Daughters, source fruit here. The bush vine vineyard was planted in 1984, and has been dry farmed since its planting. As of 2014 the vineyard has been farmed fully organically with no chemicals sprayed on the vines and soil. The soils are a mixture of decomposed granite and clay with south-west facing slope on altitude of 920 feet.
The fruit was handpicked Stompie’s palate looking for really bright acidity and structure. The fruit was whole-bunch fermented with light foot stomping to get the juice flowing and daily punchdowns for the first ten days of fermentation. There it stayed for eight weeks on stems and skins under a blanket of CO2. It was then basket pressed directly to four 16hL concrete eggs for 12 months of aging on the gross lees. After aging it was racked directly to the bottling line and was bottled without fining, filtration or SO2.
Specs
- Country South Africa
- Region Western Cape
- Appellation Swartland
- Style Orange Wine, White Wine
- Producer Mother Rock
- Farming Practices Organic
- Grapes Chenin Blanc
- Food Pairings Root Veggies, Pizza Night, White Sauce, Spicy, Fried Food
- Characteristics Wild Side, Savory White, Big Power, No Sulfur