Alheit - Hemelrand Vine Garden Hemel & Aarde Ridge White 2023

Alheit - Hemelrand Vine Garden Hemel & Aarde Ridge White 2023Alheit Vineyards is a family business started in 2010 by husband and wife team Chris and Suzaan Alheit. They met at Stellenbosch University, fell in love, travelled the world together, got married, then travelled some more. Eventually they settled on Hemelrand farm close to Hermanus and started their project. Their goals are simple: make wines with a clear sense of Cape identity so we can show that the Capes vinous heritage is worth celebrating and

a civil engineer who had studied oenology at Bordeaux University

These are their most recent awards–they have garnered many more

have a capacity of 800 litres

but several micro-cuvées brilliantly conceived to express different aspects of terroir

” says Gimonnet

in a now-historic blind tasting

And they put it here

Arrowleaf has a focus on grape varieties that thrive in the area

In addition

and made it possible to bottle a wine that would retain residual sugar

mourvèdre

when the Fleurie appellation was first created