Winery · Swartland

Swartland Revolution Natural Wine

Name: Swartland Revolution Natural Wine
Address: Swartland, ZA

The Swartland's revolution: farmers plant on 2-billion-year-old granite and shale, crafting minimal-intervention natural wines that rank among the world's most sought-after rebel vintages.

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TourSwartland Revolution Natural WineIn 1997, Eben Sadie drove north from Stellenbosch into what the maps called wheat country and the locals called nowhere. The land was cheap because nobody believed you could make great wine here — and the forgotten bush vines left by wheat farmers, some planted in 1905, were considered worthless. Then Sadie made his first Columella in 2000 and changed everything. Adi Badenhorst quit his grandfather's legacy at Groot Constantia to restore a cellar sealed since the 1930s. Today Riebeek-Kasteel is ground zero for the world's only old-vine certification system, where a seal on a bottle timestamps the exact year a farmer pressed a vine into Swartland soil.

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Winery The Sadie Family Wines Eben Sadie's natural wines from the Swartland are cult objects; made with minimal intervention in wild vineyards, his Columella and Palladius define South Africa's new natural wine movement.