Thorne & Daughters Wanderer's Heart 2020, Grenache, Mourvedre, Cinsault, Western Cape, South Africa

Thorne and Daughters Wines was started in 2012 by John and Tasha Seccombe to produce authentic wines in the beautiful Western Cape.

To produce wines they’ve drawn on the great history of wine growing here in South Africa, putting together old vineyard parcels with new grape varieties, and making wines with old school simplicity and a modern ‘edge’. The approach to wine making is simple, honest and gentle, and we are looking to make wines that tell a story of the Cape of Good Hope.

In the middle of 2016 they commissioned a writer friend to write a series of short children’s stories, and they used these stories as the inspiration for the names for their red wines.

The 2020 Wanderer’s Heart is Cape Red – a wine that is built around the incredible vineyards found all over the Western Cape. The wine is focused, with red cherries, violets and cinnamon on the nose. The tannins are supple and integrated into a palate of red currants and black cardamom.

Grape Variety:
Grenache noir – 41% Voor Paardeberg (7 years, clay soil)
Syrah – 30% Swartland (14 years old) and Stellenbosch (8 years old) - granite
Mourvèdre – 29% Bot River (13 years old) – gravel/clay duplex soil
ABV:13.88%
VOL:750ml