Testalonga Monkey Gone to Heaven 2018

47,80 incl. VAT

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ProducerTestalonga
ColorRed
Wine StyleStill
SweetnessDry
CountrySouth Africa
SubregionSwartland
VarietyMourverde
Vintage2018
Content (ml)750ml
More OptionsBiodynamic, Natural, Organic
Testalonga Monkey Gone to Heaven

Testalonga Monkey Gone to Heaven. 100% Mourvedre. Hand-harvested, 100% whole bunch fermented for 9 days in open tanks, where it is then pressed and aged in three 500L French barrel. No yeast added, ambient fermentation. 100% malolactic fermentation. Unfined and a light clarifying filtration was done.

An enchanting nose with notes of red and black fruit to go with lavender and what the French call garrigue. The palate shows great fruit purity to go with bright acidity and wonderfully supple tannins. This has a particularly energetic feel and is not nearly as wild as this variety can tend to be. Perhaps the best wine he has done this vintage.

Craig Hawkins is one of the most influential and certainly the most exciting winemakers of not only South Africa, but the New World.

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Testalonga is owned by Craig and Carla Hawkins. It was established in 2008 with the first wine being a four-week, skin-macerated Chenin blanc. The Hawkins’ currently rent 11ha of organically farmed vineyards, all growing on the granite soils of the Paardeberg, and 4ha on the sandstone soils of the Piketberg. In 2015 they purchased a farm on the slate/sandstone soils of the northern mountains of the Swartland called Bandits Kloof. The first vineyards were planted there in 2018, the focus being Mediterranean grape varieties.

Testalonga Swartland Piketberg

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