Producer - Cascina Zerbetta
broke away from the overtly (excessively
At these turbulent times politically this case celebrates co-operative wineries
After pressing the wine is returned to the tanks for 10-11 months before bottling
yet attractively exotic and lively
Testalonga, El Bandito, SKIN, Swartland, South Africa Saint-Vèran Producer - Cascina ZerbettaCraig and Carla Hawkins' wines seem to get better with every vintage. They make beautiful, poised, satisfying and utterly lovely wines from low yielding vines mainly growing on granitic soils in Swartland. Often using techniques including whole bunch ferments, extended skin contact and old oak foudres, with just a touch of sulphites at bottling, these are lovely, almost delicate wines that are a million miles from the stereotypical blockbuster South