• Colour

  Red

• Vintage

  2006

• Producer

  De Trafford

• Country

  SOUTH AFRICA

• Region

  STELLENBOSCH

• Sub Region

  NOT APPLICABLE

• Product code

  13DET2B2006

• Availability

  9 cases

Producer Information

Self-taught winemaker and former architect David Trafford's small but stellar production is regularly cited as being among the Cape's very best. David's winemaking philosophy is deceptively simple: to make the best possible wine he can whilst retaining a sense of place. To do this he embraces Stellenbosch's warm, sunny climate and rich, clay soils, noting that his vines are not planted on "the shagged out alluvial plains of the Medoc with their miserable climate". The wines tend to agree with him. They have rich fruit and a juicy ripeness but they are crisply pressed and structured too. His ability to blend New World innovation and Old World methodology can perhaps be best seen in his sweet Straw Wine, which has quickly become one of the Cape's most fiercely sought after wines.