Bottelary Hill Estate Blend

Serve with your favorite Pizza or Pasta

A 4th Generation Family Owned and managed wine business, beginning in the year 1946. The Steytler Family celebrated 75 years on the Bottelary Hills based property in Stellenbosch in 2021 and the hand over from 3rd to 4th generation in 2022. The portfolio focuses predominantly on the production of Chenin blanc and Pinotage, across 3 ranges, showcasing a different style of each of these varietals in each range.

Unirrigated vineyards ranging between 5 – 25 years old. Yields range between 5 – 7 tons per hectare. Soil types are predominantly Clovelly and Tukulu

After completion, the wine is racked, stabilized and transferred to 225L and 300L French and Hungarian oak barrels for 16 to 18 months (varietal dependent). The wine is blended after ageing and stored in concrete tanks until bottling.

Grapes are hand-harvested, crushed and destemmed and fermented in stainless steel tanks for 5-7 days (varietal dependent). The must is inoculated with certified biodynamic yeast strains to promote varietal and terroir characters. After very gentle pressing. The wine is transferred to stainless steel tanks for malo-lactic conversion.