The beautiful Elgin Valley is a high inland plateau, completely surrounded by mountains. Just 70km from Cape Town, South Africa, it is rapidly gaining a reputation for the production of premium quality wines. The Elgin Valley is the home of Elgin Vintners, publishers of fine wines and a close-knit partnership of six dedicated grape growers from the region.
Elgin Vintners’ single biggest advantage lies in the biodiversity of their vineyards. Their vineyards spread over a 12 km radius offers an unrivalled spectrum of terroir, fertile soils, aspects, altitudes, and meso-climates. The cool Elgin Valley climate helps Elgin Vintners maintain vineyards with perfect balance. It also ensures ideal crop load-to-leaf ratios, producing grapes that ripen physiologically and phenolically together. It is the blend of these essential elements that contributes to the fine quality of the wines from this region.
Careful selection of grapes from a variety of unique vineyards allows them to maximise the complexity and character of each individual wine.
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