Soldaat Grenache '25 Jonkershoek Valley Green Mielie is as delicious

Green Mielie is as delicious and as playful as its name is

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bright fruit—perfectly balanced with a clean

a strange varietal but this is not out of the ordinary for the rebels that run Testalonga

both fruit- and floral-forward

Soldaat Grenache '25 Jonkershoek Valley Green Mielie is as deliciousSoldaat is the surprisingly refreshing liquid translation of a 40 year old Grenache Noir vine. Typically Grenache vines tend to overproduce when lovingly tended or young, but with age and or unforgiving growing conditions, the vine reduces its fruit load and offers up grapes with the sort of refined depth only age or hardship can impart. Fermented on the skins for 30 days, pressed, left on lees for 8 months, racked to another concrete tank for a