TESTALONGA El Bandito ‘Monkey Gone to Heaven’ Mourverdre 2025

Name: TESTALONGA El Bandito 'Monkey Gone to Heaven' Mourverdre 2025
SKU: w2186
Price: 405.00 ZAR
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The final vintage of this special Mourvèdre bottling. A wine of personality and seriousness, balancing depth with freshness and marking the end of an important chapter in the TESTALONGA story.

‘Grapes from an Abbotsdale vineyard planted in 2001. 100% whole-bunch fermented. Red and black berries, wilted rose, fynbos and a hint of pepper. The palate delivers good fruit expression with snappy acidity and neatly grippy tannins, firm but not coarse, the finish long and dry. Alc: 12.5%. CE’s rating: 93 | “Distinctive” WINEMAG.CO.ZA

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The wines of TESTALONGA defy convention in a lot of ways. Craig has never been accused of being “a follower” and these wines represent the avant-garde of South African wine. The fruit is farmed by Craig and his team using organic and biodynamic methods. Craig is proud of making natural wines, thus early picking, a lack of additions (minute amounts of SO2 are infrequently used) with no fining or filtration are all hallmarks of his approach. They have bought a farm in the Piketberg area in northern Swartland, and have started to plant vines as of 2018.