Testalonga, El Bandito, Queen of Spades MAGNUM, Swartland, South Africa Minnella Producer - Cascina Zerbetta

Producer - Cascina Zerbetta

this allows them to hand pick their own grapes and control the finished wines

Italy and Chile

Fredi Torres makes some of the Spanish wines we get really excited about - Lectores Vini Priorat Classic for one - and is busy with many projects there so hadn't really meant to get involved in something else but

The grapes are hand harvested and sorted

Testalonga, El Bandito, Queen of Spades MAGNUM, Swartland, South Africa Minnella Producer - Cascina ZerbettaCraig and Carla Hawkins' wines seem to get better with every vintage. They make beautiful, poised, satisfying and utterly lovely wines from low yielding vines mainly growing on granitic soils in Swartland. Often using techniques including whole bunch ferments, extended skin contact and old oak foudres, with just a touch of sulphites at bottling, these are lovely, almost delicate wines that are a million miles from the stereotypical blockbuster South