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Moya Meaker Riesling 2025

R375.00

Elgin’s 2025 season ran late from the outset. Roughly 400 mm of rain fell in July alone, and above-average autumn and early-winter temperatures pushed the accumulation of cold units about two weeks behind the previous season. Flowering came about two weeks later than in 2024.

Elgin enjoyed a conspicuously cool 2025 season with almost no heat events. January ran 1 to 1.5 °C below the long-term average and a dry February held disease pressure down. Harvest began roughly two weeks later than usual across the district.

ANALYSIS: Alc: 11.59% | pH: 2.86 |TA: 7.6 g/L |RS: 7.8 g/L

6 in stock

Description

Marrying Old World refinement with New World vivaciousness, this handcrafted wine pays tribute to the memory of Moya Meaker, a woman whose sophistication and elegance remains our guiding light.

Elgin is a valley in the sky; a lofty plateau hemmed in by mountains, covered by a blanket of clouds, cooled by ocean breezes, and couched in soils of shale over clay.

When David and Genevieve Curl purchased an apple farm in the Elgin valley in 2010, they immediately planted a 3.12-hectare parcel of Pinot Noir on a ridge with ancient of clay-rich Bokkeveld shale. Clones 667 and 777 on rootstock 101-14 were chosen to capitalise on Elgin’s cool climate terroir. Focused on the ultimate goal of crafting small quantities of premium Pinot Noir, the vineyard’s planting density of 6250 vines per hectare encourages stiff competition between the vines, resulting in better flavour and concentration in the fruit.

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Damascene

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