Testalonga, El Bandito, Queen of Spades MAGNUM, Swartland, South Africa Minnella Producer - Cascina Zerbetta

Producer - Cascina Zerbetta

Golden in colour

The grapes are hand harvested and sorted

Sub-Region - Cotes du Rhône

Fermented on skins in cement tanks then aged for seven months in acacia

Testalonga, El Bandito, Queen of Spades MAGNUM, Swartland, South Africa Minnella 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