SEQUILLO
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Sequillo is a latin description for an arid, dry place of great purity, which is what the Swartland region in South Africa’s western cape is all about.

This project started as a venture that focuses on the limited production of one wine, which has now expanded to two. These wines are vinified exclusively from Southern Rhone grape varieties they are particularly suited to the Swartland climate.

The varieties of this project include Syrah, Mourvèdre and Grenache.  In future they intend to experiment with grape varieties from Greece and southern Italy as they are in search of varieties which retain acidity and freshness in the Swartland climate.  The project also produces a white from old vine Chenin Blanc, Grenache Blanc, Viognier and Roussanne. 

 

Sequillo is a venture owned in 50/50 partnership between The Sadie Family and the Cornel Spies Family Trust. These two families have a long standing history in wine and came together because of the love for wine and the individual terroir of the Swartland region. The vineyard holding comprises 8 organically farmed hectares with 2 newly planted hectares which they intend to develop and refine.  Most of the existing vineyards are farmed in the goblet system “Bush vine” and they intend to continue this age-old practice.

The aim of the project is to produce wines which are unique and honest and rather display minerality as apposed to more opulent flavors.

 

 

 
SEQUILLO WHITE

Appellation: Swartland

sequillo white bottleA blend of Chenin Blanc, Grenache Blanc, Viognier and Roussanne, the aim is to produce a unique and honest wine displaying minerality as apposed to more opulent flavors. Painstakingly crafted using time-honored winemaking machinery (basket press) and methodology (pigage), this wine is a bottled rendering of the very terroir from where it was created.

“Notably deep gold for such a young wine. Tangy nose with honeysuckle and tangerine skin flavours. Not heavy on the palate despite the alcohol, and full of interest already. Surprisingly open, very suave. Very neat, confident finish with marked acidity – indeed it may even be very slightly too marked? But a one-off style. Much more sophisticated in structure than the average southern French white blend.” Jancis Robinson

SEQUILLO RED

Appellation: Swartland

sequillo red bottleA blend of Syrah, Mourvèdre and Grenache, Southern Rhone varietals particularly suited to the arid climate of the rugged terrain of the Swartland region. Painstakingly crafted using time-honored winemaking machinery (basket press) and methodology (pigage), this wine is a bottled rendering of the very terroir from where it was created. The aim is to produce a unique and honest wine displaying minerality as apposed to more opulent flavors.

“Good full red. Redcurrant, spicecake and chocolate mint on the nose, lifted by a note of dried flowers. Suave, juicy and vinous, with good concentration of flavor in a medium-bodied package. More southern than northern Rhone in its red fruit and spicecake flavors, but not particularly fleshy or powerful. Subtly sweet, firmly structured and elegant. Made by Eben Sadie of Columella fame.”

Steve Tanzer’s International Wine Cellar