Testalonga | Baby Bandito: Stay Brave | 2022

Producer: Testalonga

Region/Country: Swartland, South Africa

Grape(s): Chenin Blanc

A nose with notes of flowers, herbs and ginger before lemon and orange aromas develop. The palate displays fruit, citrus and minerals to go with bright acidity. Light and energetic.

Grapes are harvested by hand and destemmed. Fermented in open 1500L fermenters on skin for 12 days. Pressed off into 2200L old oak foudre to finish fermentation. Indigenous yeast fermentation using ambient temperatures. The wine goes through malolactic fermentation before being bottled unfined and unfiltered with a very small amount of sulphur added before bottling.