BLANKbottle, B-BOS 2, 2020

BLANKbottle, B-BOS 2, 2020

BLANKbottle, B-BOS 2, 2020

1 in stock

BLANKbottle, B-BOS 2, 2020

32,53 

1 in stock

750
SKU WC111370-2020 Category

B-BOS 2 – The neighbour vineyard to B-BOS 1 – A straight Cape L’Agulhas, southern most tip of Africa Semillon…

Story

My grandmother grew up on a farm near a town called Bredasdorp. It’s about 45 minutes drive from L’Agulhas, where the most Southern point of the African continent is situated. When she got married, she received a wedding gift from her parents – a plot of land right next to the ocean in L’Agulhas. She built a small wooden house with the money she received as wedding gifts (seems like the standard of wedding gifts has lowered significantly in the years since then…). It’s 75 years later and the wooden house called “T-nie-C” is now my mom’s and still fully operational as a family holiday house. This is our post-harvest, post-travel, post-bottling family hideaway and very close to our hearts. The place where the kids and Aneen and I reconnect with each other and ourselves, and also where I design most of my labels.

Because of this, I’ve always wanted to produce a wine of origin Cape Agulhas. I had my eye on a few possible sites but it was a phone call from Caroline Rillema, owner of Caroline’s Fine Wines (a wine shop in Cape Town), that was the start of an epic venture in this area. Caroline is a formidable force in the wine industry and she and her husband Ray, planted two vineyards on their holiday breakaway smallholding in a little town called Baardskeerdersbos. As the crow flies it is 47 km from our little house in L’Agulhas. If you translate Baardskeerdersbos into English, it means “Beard-Shavers-Bush”, named after a famous spider that lives in these parts of the country. This spider builds its nest from human hair… and the myth goes that when you go to bed at night the Baardskeerder spider will climb into your bed and shave your beard for the construction of his home. So I make wine from two different wines on Caroline’s property – B-BOS-1 and B-BOS-2

B-BOS-2 is a straight Semillon

ALCOHOL (%): 14.50%

RESIDUAL SUGAR (g/L): 1.5

TOTAL ACIDITY (g/L): 5.91

PH: 3.25

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