Tasting Notes
Just 901 bottles produced of this Stellenbosch Semillon that incorporates 40% skin fermented having been destemmed, and 60% whole bunches. Properly golden in colour, with lots of apple, spiced currants, apricot skin and lime. The palate is amazingly concentrated and extraordinarily unique - with lime - lime leaf and zest too, green cardamon pods and anise too.
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From the Platter Guide's Newcomer of the Year 2022, The Vineyard party is one of South Africa's most exciting new brands and micro-producers! Produced by Jolette Steyn, her maiden 2018 releases focus on two Semillons from the same Stellenbosch vineyard produced with some more unusual vinification techniques. Jolette seeks out sustainably farmed vineayards that prioritise biodiversity, and works with avant-garde, low intervention techniques in the cellar. Both unusually named wines come with wonderful stories behind them too. "Here be Dragons" has two reasons - one, for Jolette's long term fascination with dragons and their inclusion as illustrations on ancient maps in unexplored territories as drawn by cartographers. And secondly, as taken from the Sherlock Holmes series, when Sherlocks asks his brother why he is needed, or why he should go on with his work. His brother, Mycroft, replied: 'Here Be Dragons'. It's a quote that Jolette had written down to help her remember that fortune favours the brave, to always be creative and challenge the norms.