Mystery of Nature
Wild Melody
Awards: 🏆 2020: Michelangelo 2025 (Double Gold); 2019: Platter 2021 (4 stars), Tim Atkins 2022 SA Wine Report (89 points), IWSC 2021 Bronze (87 points); 2018: Platter 2021 (4 stars), Tim Atkins 2019 SA Wine Report (88 points); 2017: Platter 2019 (4 stars)
This is a harmonizing wine with a superior structure. Lovely soft spice with hints of papaya and minerals.
Fresh mountain water on virgin soil and unspoiled and healthy microbes, makes the perfect medium for this alternative wine.
Olivedale has unique Mediterranean summer days and cooler nights. Constantly 50% lower temperatures during the night as during the day.
Picked in 10kg lug boxes in March, this in order not to damage the fruits. The grapes were hand-sorted and mechanical destemmed. Whole berry natural fermentation with extended skin contact. Layer like a cake in a specially designed tank and fermented naturally under pressure. Each berry in its own utopia. Through malolactic fermentation, pressed and racked into tank for further lees contact. Bottled on site under watchful eyes 160 days after harvest. This low sulphur wine is the result of minimum interference, reductive procedures, and clever use of natural tannins.
☕ Serving suggestion: lamb, biryani, smoky aubergine like baba ghanoush and hard to semi-hard cheeses.
Roobernet
Awards: 🏆 2020: Niche Variety Challenge 2026 (Gold), Platter 2020 (4 stars), Tim Atkins 2022 SA Wine Report (90 points); 2019: Platter 2020 (4 stars)
The romance of the aroma and the wonderful softness in taste of the wine can only come from creative, alternative thinking. This wine tells a story of the philosophy of who we are.
Fresh mountain water on virgin soil and unspoiled and healthy microbes, makes the perfect medium for this alternative wine.
Olivedale had a unique Mediterranean summer days and cooler nights. Constantly 50% lower temperatures during the night as during the day.
Picked in 10kg lug boxes in March, the grapes were hand-sorted and destemmed and crushed. Cold macerated for 3days at low temperature of 10ºC until natural fermentation starts, and a CO2 blanket protects the juice. Grapes is then pressed into 500 and 600lt 3rd fill barrels to finish its first and second fermentation. Racked from its lees and returned to barrel for aging.
☕ Serving suggestion: Serve chilled as a summer midday wine…
Rouge Muscat
Awards: 🏆 2020: Michelangelo 2025 (Silver); 2017: Platter 2019 (4 stars), Tim Atkins 2019 SA Wine Report (87 points)
Turkish delight and rose petals on the nose, not so sweet with a velvety linger in your mouth.
Sandy soil with heavy yellow clay base.
Olivedale had a unique Mediterranean summer days and cooler nights. Constantly 50% lower temperatures during the night as during the day.
Picked in 10kg lug boxes in March, the grapes were hand-sorted and destemmed but not crushed. Whole berry natural fermentation with extended skin contact. Fortified when balling reached 12’B, pressed and racked into barrels.
☕ Serving suggestion: A flavourful curry dish or delightful with a fresh berry pavlova.
Queen of Africa “Edel Laat Oes”
Awards: 🏆 2015: Platter 2017 (4.5 stars), Sommeliers Selection 2017 – Sweet and Stickies, Michelangelo IWA 2017 (Double Gold), Veritas 2017 (Silver), IWSC 2018 (Gold)
Sweet honey, tropical guava and tangerine nose with a lively acid, rolling smoothly over the tongue, with the softness of silence. From the deep red soil of Darling’s hills, it was sculptured in Swellendam. This exceptional natural fermented wine was matured in 300lt French oak barrels and bottled 292 days later.
☕ Serving suggestion: A perfect partner for salty white or blue cheese or with the luxurious sweetness of crème brulee.