TESTALONGA El Bandito ‘Skin’ Skin Contact Chenin Blanc 2025

Name: TESTALONGA El Bandito 'Skin' Skin Contact Chenin Blanc 2025
SKU: w2183
Price: 405.00 ZAR
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R405.00

The wine that started it all. This vintage is a slightly more restrained interpretation of this wine, using two weeks of gentle maceration rather than intense extraction to create a wine that is energetic, food-friendly and incredibly vibrant.

‘Grapes from a Paardeberg vineyard planted in 1972. 14 days of skin maceration. Hugely complex on nose and palate. Aromatics of honeysuckle, fynbos and ginger before peach and apricot and a hint of beeswax. Excellent concentration, layers of flavour, starting creamy and ending dry and savoury. Alc: 11.5%.CE’s rating: 97 | “Serious” 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.