Sadie Family Swartland Treinspoor 2024 balance-nation Our NV Brut Cuvée displays

Our NV Brut Cuvée displays lovely texture a combination of secondary yeast characters with vibrant fruit and good natural acid on the finish

Snap-frozen (so the ice can help the distilled spirit to pierce the cell walls faster and provide an immediate release of explosive

flavour-ripe) as he wants his terroir to shine through

Rhône-styled and slight in build

Sadie Family Swartland Treinspoor 2024 balance-nation Our NV Brut Cuvée displaysSwartland. Its a Swartland thing, notes Sadie of Tinta Barocca (the South African spelling has only one r and two cs). This variety arrived in South Africa from the Douro and has found an opportune home in the Western Cape. Historically, Tinta das Baroccas (as it was once labelled) has played a prominent role in Swartlands red blends, and interest in the varietyparticularly from old, dry grown vineyardshas spiked in recent years. This vineyard,