Coterie Cinsault Rosé

Drink chilled on its own or serve with fresh seafood, a quinoa and pomegranate salad, or herb marinated grilled chicken tenders.

Wildeberg Wines, a place to which good things come and from which great things flow, is located against the majestic Franschhoek mountain, affectionately called ‘that wild mountain’. Here the barrel hall is busily bubbling away with wild ferments whilst this winery forms the next evolutionary phase.With have sublime accommodation for guests, and a tasting room boasting arguably the most breathtaking scenic views in the hemisphere, Wildeberg is the place to see. If the abiding memory of our wines remains a textural sense of place then we are portraying the Cape as hoped.

A Wildeberg wine begins life when we fall for a specific vineyard. The next step is simply expressing that place. In this case we fell upon a block of organically-farmed, dry-grown bush-vine Cinsault grown on the Agter-Paarl’s mineral seams. The fruit was picked at a ripeness optimal for this rosé’s natural acidity, in the cool of dawn and trucked up the road to Wildeberg.

The fruit harvested just made a full single press, which was then gently squeezed to old French oak demi-muids for natural fermentation. The colour comes just from that light press and spends no further time on skins. The gourd-shaped bottle amplifies the shallot-skin hue of the wine and the individual printed wraps protect the wine from light-strike until opened.