About The Winelands welcomes Colyn Truter, Chairman and Founding Member of Cape Site Specific, based in the Cape Winelands of South Africa. The initiative was launched at Cape Wine 2018 with great success with numerous members joining.
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About Site Specific
Our members are made up of a collection of small independent producers together with single family generation winemakers producing wine from their respective estates. We believe that through Cape Site Specific we can start to educate, inform and change perceptions of the national and international Trade, Media and consumers on the significance of our diversity within our respective appellations.
Although all producers don’t necessarily believe in all four aspects of terroir, we agree that it has an influence on the character and identity of our wines which cannot be duplicated or imitated somewhere else. We believe in wines with a fingerprint, with an identity and a sense of place!
Wine Destinations
- SINGLE VINEYARD WINE
- The term “single vineyard wine” may only be used for wine produced from grapes derived from aunit officially registered for the production of single vineyard wine. Such a unit must consist of a 100% single variety and the area may not exceed 6 hectares (roughly 15 acres)
- ESTATE WINE
- An estate wine of a particular estate must be produced solely from grapes harvested on the estate concerned. The wine must be grown, made and bottled on such estate. This has to 100% from the Estate and no % of wine can be bought or brought in. The vineyard and winery has to be on one designated continuous piece of land.
- WARD SPECIFIC SITES
- A Ward Specific wine has to be made from one designated ward with the Wine of Origin scheme. A wine cannot be bottled as Regional wine i.e Stellenbosch, if the grapes are grown in more than one ward. The largest accepted designation for a Site Specific wine is made from grapes from the same ward.
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