Newton Johnson, Falkirk Grenache 2022

Why we love this bottle

Newton Johnson is a family estate in the Hemel en Aarde Valley, close to the sea. Dave Johnson and his wife Felicity Newton started there in the nineties, and today their son Gordon and his wife Nadia make the wine. They work as gently as possible. The grapes are picked by hand, and in the cellar everything flows from top to bottom without pumps. We love it because it carries a piece of Scotland in a South African bottle.

Falkirk is a small vineyard on a plateau, only a few kilometres from the Atlantic Ocean. The vines grow as small bushes between the stones. The Newton family originally comes from Falkirk in Scotland, a name meaning speckled church, after a stone church of more than a thousand years old. Red berries, orange peel, fynbos and white pepper. Fragrant, supple and with a savoury finish.