Jikken Bareru Nel & Coetzee Bosstok Steen Chenin Blanc 2022

Produced from two vineyards that are 50 and 35 years old adding great intensity, sumptuous citrus, yellow plum and pear flavours.

Cheese, fish, pasta with white sauce, poultry, shellfish, and vegetarian dishes

Best served at 10 - 13°C.

Meet the winemakers Margaux Nel & Leon Coetzee. "The Fledge & Co. is a proudly South African "vine to wine' project, whereby we are fortunate to source fruit from over 50 vineyards spread across the length & breadth of the Cape Winelands to showcase to the world our truly special vineyards & passion of the workers and farmers who tend the vines rooted in ancient African soils. Our guiding tenets are "the right grape, in the right place" and working Old Skool in the cellar allowing the vintage, variety, and site to shine. We aim to craft wines that can be enjoyed amongst friends & family around the kitchen table to bring much merriment & enliven cuisine. "Terroir by a truck" might be the aptest description of the project with us traveling 20,000 km plus during vintage to source the fruit & thankfully all our activities are offset by Spekbome (Portulacaria afra) on conservancy land owned by our family".

The Fledge & Company is what happens when two folk don’t quite enjoy the status quo when it’s your nature to go against the grain when you need to forge a path mostly in the unknown, eschewing common place convention and taking that first defiant flight from the nest. Handcrafting old-school wines of integrity, unfaltering quality, defying perceptions of origin, and being guided solely by the vine to showcase our passion – these are The Fledge & Co.’s reasons for being. Wines whispering of their origin; wines benefitting from careful cellaring; wines that are best decanted & accompanied in good cheer with fine fare – that’s our unwavering goal. With these tenets, a penchant for the unconventional, and the pursuit of the fluid dynamic, we set about labouring away in the vineyards across the Cape of Good Hope to craft with care a nest of fledglings. To life, love & wine!

• Vegan - Practising (Uncertified)

White | Still | 75cl | 13% ABV