The Wandering Beeste is a big-boned, sinewy, muscular affair true the skinny Nguni cow it is named for, yet still with its varietal swagger tempered by the quartz soils it feeds from.
Production
Fruit from trellised blocks on the Agter-Paarl’s soils of sandy loams threaded with granite seams. Petite Sirah is also known as Durif, from Syrah pollen crossed with Peloursin in France in the 1880s, and named with immeasurable modesty by the inventor himself, François Durif. The “petite” refers to the tight bunches of small, dark berries whose high skin-to-juice ratio naturally gives a dark wine of structure. In Paarl’s warm, dry climate we achieve colour and therefore structure with ease so we choose 100% carbonic maceration and whole berry, no stems, to express the sense of place rather than just the cultivar.
Wandering Beeste Petite Sirah, Coastal Region 2022 (6 bottles case)
Vivino ratings
Tasting notes
This Petite Sirah has a nose of dark cherry and kirsch with bitter chocolate and graphite. The sinewy palate expresses warm, leafy fruit, cocoa bean and finely grained textural tannins.
Food match
This wine deserves a wonderfully juicy, premium and rare steak!
Info
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ABV
14.5%
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CASE/BOTTLE SIZE
6 x 75cl
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REGION/COUNTRY
COASTAL REGION, SOUTH AFRICA
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GRAPE
PETITE SIRAH 100%
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FEATURES
VEGETARIAN, VEGAN
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CLOSURE
CORK
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WINEMAKER
RYNO BOOYSEN & JD ROSSOUW
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ALLERGEN INFO
CONTAINS SULPHITES AND NO OTHER ALLERGENS
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Meet the producer
What’s this then? SKU is a casual band of happy ferments. A circus tent of the Cape’s stranger grapes and blends.
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