This wine is impossibly fun to drink. A deeper pink with crisp red berries and minerality on the nose. The palate has a pretty and floral note to it. A very low alcohol of 11.5% makes this wine utterly smashable.
From vintage 2020, Johan “Stompie” Meyer has made the wines in his cellar at the new home of Mother Rock and JH Meyer Wines, Platteklip Farm on the Piketberg Mountain in northern Swartland.
These are natural wines, with organic farming a foundation of the project. In the cellar, Stompie keeps things very simple: no additions—often not even sulphur. He reliers on a combination of the quality of the vineyard, the farming, picking early, and his skill in the winery to produce expressive wines of honesty and heart at ridiculous value.
These wines are some of the edgiest and most delicious in South Africa today.
There are vineyards being planted on the new farm that will eventually be used for this label in years to come.