Testalonga, El Bandito, I am the Ninja, Swartland, South Africa Featyured Country - Chile

Country - Chile

This year's vintage of Cuvée Alice sees Syrah taking the dominant role with Carignan and Cinsault supporting bringing more dark fruits and pepperiness into the equation

Who decides where the limit is

For this wine a field blend of grapes from 80 year old vines are gently destemmed before being foot trodden and then separated into parcels

Testalonga, El Bandito, I am the Ninja, Swartland, South Africa Featyured Country - ChileCraig 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