Porseleinberg the wine is named after the farm, and the mountain, south of the Kasteelberg, on which it is grown. This windy, wild, exposed hilltop vineyard, with its extremely rocky blue schist soils, yields one of South Africa’s greatest Syrahs. Farmed by Callie Louw since 2009, the inaugural vintage of this intense, structured, and captivating Syrah was 2010.
Callie is first and foremost a farmer, like the great winegrowers of the Northern Rhône. He works biodynamically in this isolated vineyard, accompanied by cattle, sheep, and chickens. The Syrah for Porseleinberg is sourced from four blocks on the farm totalling 4.5ha. After spending some time at Domaine Jamet in Côte-Rôtie, he had “a light bulb moment” and started to work slightly differently with the fruit from the 2018 vintage, still one hundred percent whole bunch, but submerging the cap during fermentation.
