Newsletter
Sign up for our newsletter for information on our latest products and promotions.
Sign up for our newsletter for information on our latest products and promotions.
Please confirm that you are of legal age
to purchase alcohol in your region.
You currently have an active checkout session
open already, would you like to clear it?
1257 Kensington Road NW
1 (403) 283-8000 / atyourservice@kensingtonwinemarket.com
$37.99
Craig and Carla Hawkins are two of the most important, pioneering icons of South African wine. Their label, Testalonga, was born in the Swartland in 2008, at a time when the Swartland Revolution put the region on the map and proved it is much more than a land of cheap plonk. Winemakers like Adi Badenhorst, Eben Sadie, and Chris and Andrea Mullineux set the scene for true terroir-based winemaking, and then the young(er) guns like Craig, Carla, Johan Meyer of Mother Rock, and Jurgen Gouws of Intellego came along, pushing boundaries even further. They began playing with skin contact on their whites, earlier picking dates, lower sulphur levels, etc., in a way that their predecessors hadn’t.
750 ml
From the Swartland's decomposed granite soils, this was a single bush vine plot of carignan at Bandit's Kloof, planted in 2001 at 220m, and farmed organically. As is Craig's way, this was entirely whole bunch with stems, crushed, and native fermented before going into old foudre and 500L barrels where it remained until bottling without fining and minimal SO2. One of the most graceful carignan you'll find, with perfumed mulberry, herbal raspberry, and wild cherry stretched long on the slender palate. Tannins are finely textural, guiding this to a stony finish. Very pure and authentic lens for this grape.