The label notes inform us that grapes from which this Chardonnay is made are grown in the beautiful Breede River Valley in the Robertson region of South Africa. They tell us that Danie de Wet is a pioneer of Chardonnay in South Africa and uses traditional wine-making techniques combined with modern technology, to create a wine with rich yet elegant tropical fruit flavours.
From a geological point of view, the Breede River is bordered by Silurian sandstone ridges. The older terraces in the wine-growing areas tend to be the reddish-brown, calcareous, gravelly soils on the hills, with still higher weathered shale being used more and more. Other vines grow on alluvium along river banks. The grapes of Limestone Hill are grown high on the slopes of those calcareous hills.