Alheit Vineyards Cartology (2024) rosé and the fine

and the fine

The wine is aged in a mix of French and American oak

Ridge is one of California's most respected wineries

easy-to-love character year after year

without an accent - feeling the French "Brut sans année" undersold the wine

Alheit Vineyards Cartology (2024) rosé and the fineCartology is the wine widely credited with redefining South African white wine the bottle that turned the Cape's old, forgotten bush vines into the most exciting story in the fine wine world. Chris and Suzaan Alheit built it as a map of that heritage: a blend drawn from rare, dry farmed parcels scattered the length of the Western Cape, most of them between forty and eighty years old. It is Chenin Blanc with a small portion of Smillon, the Chenin