Brookdale Wines

2025 Brookdale Twenty Field Blend

R465

Per Bottle

We had a great winter, cold and wet, giving the vines the rest and hydration they needed for a strong start. The growing season stayed cool, creating near-perfect conditions for healthy vines and high-quality fruit. Budburst came a little later than usual but was nice and even across the vineyard, setting us up for a great year. Ripening happened during a warm, dry stretch without any extreme heat, and with no late-season surprises or disease. The fruit came in beautifully, clean, balanced, and full of promise.

Availability: In stock

Door to door in South Africa. Estimated 5 – 10 working days.

RED FIELD BLEND

THOUGHTS & REFLECTIONS

What customers & critics are saying

TASTING NOTES

This wine is a riot on the nose and in the mouth! Complex juicy red and black berries, crunchy plums, dried herbs, fynbos spice and steely minerality. Cranberry, hedgerow berry and pomegranate freshness lead the way to a satisfying mouthful, textured and impeccable balance with a long savoury herb and dreamy finish. Decant in youth.

WINEMAKING

A celebration of traditional field-blend winemaking, this wine brings together 20 varietals interplanted as bush vines on decomposed shale and granite soils. Grapes were hand-harvested over three pickings, pre-cooled, hand-sorted, destemmed, and gently crushed. Fermentation occurred spontaneously in closed tanks, with around 30 days on skins and a single daily pump-over for balanced extraction. The wine was basket pressed to tank, then matured for 11 months in seasoned French oak (30%) and concrete eggs (70%), followed by six months of bottle ageing prior to release.