Sadie Family
Skerpioen 2019
Cape Heritage
About the SessionA selection of South Africa’s finest wines, inspired by our rich wine heritage and the unique character of the Cape Winelands. Chenin Blanc is celebrated for its remarkable versatility, producing an exceptional range of wine styles, particularly in South Africa, home to the oldest Chenin Blanc vines in the world. These historic vineyards continue to produce wines of great diversity, elegance, and ageing potential. The Pinotage selection showcases leading producers, all of whom have become consistent flag bearers for this proudly South African variety.
About this Item
The 2019 vintage in the Swartland was shaped by continued drought conditions across the region, a season of exceptional concentration and natural intensity that pushed old-vine parcels to produce wines of extraordinary purity and focused mineral expression. Sadie Family's 2019 Skerpioen earned 96 points from Tim Atkin MW and 93 points from James Suckling. Skerpioen takes its name from the scorpions that inhabit its remote coastal site, a wind-swept parcel planted between 1958 and 1967 in chalk-based limestone soils halfway between Dwarskersbos and Elands Bay on the West Coast, one of the most geologically distinctive vineyard addresses in all of South Africa. The wine is produced from a co-planting of Chenin Blanc and Palomino, whole-bunch pressed and naturally fermented, aged on the gross lees in neutral old casks.
Provenance
Private Client
Critics Ratings
"Skerpioen is quite a place: a wind-swept, seashore vineyard with sand and limestone soils that makes one of the Cape's most distinctive whites. Produced from co-planted Chenin and Palomino, it's wonderfully yeasty, pithy and saline with mouth-watering freshness and notes of kelp and fresh bread." - Tim Atkin MW, SA Special Report 2020, 96/100 (Sep 2020)
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