Le Lude Brut Rose Reserve 2020

Le Lude, a wine farm in the picturesque Franschhoek Valley of South Africa’s Western Cape, follows an ethos committed to its founding family and the crafting of naturally bottle-fermented sparkling wines, known as Cap Classique. Here the Barrow family have made their home, writing a new chapter in a premier wine region where French Huguenots, fleeing persecution for their religious beliefs, landed in the Cape and began making wines in Franschhoek as far back as 1693.

Today Le Lude builds on this important vinous tradition by specialising in Cap Classique, ensuring that grapes expressing site and terroir are coaxed into a premium product of unrivalled excellence. Innovation in the cellar and the restless, un-comprising pursuit of perfection in the bottle have made Le Lude one of the world’s most exciting new producers of Cap Classique, a wine becoming internationally renowned for finesse, elegance and refinement.

Grapes from specially selected blocks are hand picked in the early morning. Bunches are pressed whole with only the first pressing juice – the cuvée – used in the making of the base wines which are regularly tasted before the components are blended for bottle fermentation. The wine matures and ferments in bottle for a minimum of twelve months. After riddling and disgorging the wines are left to mature on cork for some time. The cultivars used in this Brut Rosé are 55% Pinot Noir, 40% Chardonnay and 5% Pinot Meunier.