“Harvest 2024 and 2025 could hardly have been more different.

Dry conditions and stressed vineyards in 2024 meant smaller berries and super low yields, which all led to incredible concentration. The wines are elegant, lean and bright, as always, but this time there’s another level of depth to the tannin structure and a real intensity and power to the fruit.

2025 was the absolute opposite — it was a breeze. Everything just ticked along; all smiles, no tears. The grapes ripened slowly in a long, relatively cool summer. It reminded me a lot of the 2023 vintage, where we didn't have to rush, and all the batches just matured and ripened in their own time.

I find that in almost all the ‘25s I'm tasting now there’s this incredible sweet-sour citrusy fruit freshness in the whites that you only get in these conditions, when the grapes have time to build all those lovely things that we need for flavour and complexity. Elegance, energy and focus.”

— Marelise Niemann, Winemaker