Hand-harvested, part whole bunch lightly foot pressed, semi carbonically macerated on skins for 10 days. Basket pressed and aged in old oak barrels for 9 months. No yeast inoculation or additives apart from a small amount of SO2. Lightly filtered at bottling. Total Sulfites: 27 mg/L. This wine is fermented spontaneously. Non irrigated bush vines grown on the slopes of the Paardeberg Mountain in the Swartland in decomposed granite soils. An everyday drinking wine, a lighter, dry Syrah with plum and strawberry aromas on the nose.
Wightman & Sons is situated at the foot of the Paardeberg Mountain in the Swartland region of the Western Cape, South Africa. The vineyards comprise of non-irrigated bush vines grown in decomposed granite soils. There are 6 different cultivars covering 24 hectares with the oldest block planted in 1965.
The farm called Môrelig was purchased by the Wightman family in 2011 as a new venture with the launch of their first vintage being in 2015. Their wines are made with minimal intervention using grapes grown sustainably. The philosophy is to keep it simple and to express the terroir of the soil. The journey of their wine starts in the vineyards by farming with minimal impact on the environment which enhances the character of their wines. They are members of the Swartland Independent Producers, a group of like-minded winemakers sharing similar ideologies.
