Rex Equus Pioneer's Blend

This wine pairs exceptionally well with premium cuts of meat. A fine choice for Grilled ribeye steak served with Béarnaise sauce and potato Dauphinoise, or roast leg of lamb and potato Grand Mére.

Perdeberg Group is one of South Africa’s leading wine producers and exporters with its head office situated in the shadows of the Paardeberg Mountain in Paarl. Established in 1941, the company adopted its name from the scores of Mountain Zebra that once roamed the mountain foothills, mistaken for wild horses by the Dutch. With an exceptional portfolio of superior quality brands, Perdeberg markets award-winning wines to a selection of top wine markets around the globe. These include The Dryland Collection, The Vineyard Collection, The Classic Range and Soft Smooth Range. Through our extensive supply network of grapes and wines, we offer customers a complete solution to meet the ever-changing needs of their consumers. The unique composition of our vineyards significantly contributes to the quality of our wines. These dry land bush vines create exceptional fruit concentration than vines subjected to unnatural vineyard practices. The structure and complexity of these smaller berries bring intense colour, added body and bold flavours. Perdeberg Cellar's unique composition of vineyards significantly contributes to the quality of our wines. Our vineyards cover more than 2500 ha and are mostly un-irrigated and un-trellised, yielding a very low long-term average of 8 tons per hectare. Under these conditions, Mother Nature produces her best fruit with intense colour, added body, and passionate flavours. These vines allow our winemaking team to produce an internationally well-awarded wine arrangement, enjoyed around the world.

The 2019 vintage tells a tale of endurance as challenging weather conditions providing smaller crops. Perdeberg’s wines from this vintage stands out in terms of quality and elegance. Additionally, smaller berries contributed towards enhanced red fruit flavours. Only grapes from the best selected blocks and from the best parts of these blocks were used, combining the best selected terroir for each of the cultivars. The average yield is 6 t/ha with dryland growing conditions playing an integral part of fruit quality and intensity. The grapes were hand-picked at optimal ripeness and harvested in small batches.

The wine spent a total of 18 months in 500L French Oak barrels, whereby only the best barrels were selected and blended to create a harmony of flavours and balance in the wine.

Managed with the utmost care in the cellar, berry sorting took place prior to fermentation as to remove any unwanted berries. Fermentation took place for 7 days in small stainless-steel tanks with regular pump-overs of the fermenting must to extract the flavour, colour and structure from the skins. After racking, the wine was put to barrel for malolactic fermentation.