Tasting Notes
Trust us, this will be your new house white. The debut of Rondavel Hills, which is going to be a Tembela project providing a house red and white option that shares the joy of his top releases. This is pure, stunning wine that you'll never get tired of sipping. Old vine Chenin grown in the Swartland, produces this rich, texture and joyous wine that is bright and so nicely balanced too.
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Banele grew up in Cape Town's largest township, Khayelitsha. He still lives there, looking after four younger siblings, after his mum died. He earned a scholarship to a Constantia high school and his classroom looked out over a vineyard, he sat there daydreaming about what life in wine would be like. He got a degree at Elsenberg Agricultural College and enrolled on the Cape Winemaker’s Guild Protégé programme, where he did stints in Burgundy, Oregon and Yarra Valley. The final stage was with Savage wines. Such was Duncan's fondness and respect for Banele as a person and winemaker, he was there for nearly 6 years, just finishing with him before Christmas to fully focus on his own project, supported and encouraged to do so by Savage himself. Banele's lead project is named after his mother, Tembela. Then his newly launching house range is named after the roundhouses he remembers from childhood in Khayelitsha, Rondavel hills.