Owned by Manchester wine company Boutinot, Wildeberg is ‘creating wines with a sense of place from unique vineyard blocks across the Cape’. A core part of the creating is now done in an on-site 300-ton cellar which joins a tasting room. Wildeberg farm has only 10ha planted to vines, the rest is wild.
Fruit for Wildeberg Red is from the Franschhoek Valley only, is hand-harvested, naturally fermented and gently matured in their mountain barrel hall on the farm. In their Wildeberg Terroirs bottlings they look beyond their home to a clutch of exceptional sites of other origin.
Releases of Wildeberg and Terroirs express their continued purpose – exceptional wines of place, however humble the origin. ‘If the abiding memory of our wines remains a textural sense of place then we are portraying the Cape as hoped’.
Blend: 90% Shiraz and 10% Cabernet Franc.