HOMETOWN OVC is an old vine Chenin from my hometown, Wellington. The artist and I took a photo of this bush-vine arm and top soil in this vineyard.
The soil is a duplex soil and has both quartz and “Koffieklip” (Ferricrete) rocks and pebbles throughout the top soil horizon. The larger rocks illustrated are quartz and the smaller ones “Koffieklip” which translates to “Coffee-stone” as the small dark-red pebbles almost look like coffee beans. Quartz brings the freshness & minerality and the iron rich “Koffiekilp” brings the power balance to the wine. The relatively medium intense yellow colour used by the artist shows the medium balanced intensity of this wine, as the rocks become the soil, and the soil influences the wine
The soil is a duplex soil and has both quartz and “Koffieklip” (Ferricrete) rocks and pebbles throughout the top soil horizon. The larger rocks illustrated are quartz and the smaller ones “Koffieklip” which translates to “Coffee-stone” as the small dark-red pebbles almost look like coffee beans. Quartz brings the freshness & minerality and the iron rich “Koffiekilp” brings the power balance to the wine. The relatively medium intense yellow colour used by the artist shows the medium balanced intensity of this wine, as the rocks become the soil, and the soil influences the wine