Rocking Horse 2024

Thorne & Daughters, teknisk ark/fact sheet (thorneanddaughters.com – linket fra thorneanddaughters.com, hentet 2026-10-18): 2024 Thorne & Daughters Rocking Horse – område: Western Cape; druer: Roussanne, Chenin Blanc, Chardonnay, Sémillon, Clairette; alkohol 13.4%. Producentens noter (engelsk): About the wine: T HE WINE AND THE 2 02 4 VINTAG E A cold, we t winter and spring set us up for a lighter crop over most of our vineyards. On balance a lighter crop and some water reserves in the soils were a big help in ripening the grapes during a very hot early harvest period. I love the 2024 wines. They were a little angular and awkward in their early stages but have shown their beautiful depth of character and what I can only describe as a profound density of fruit that will continue to unfurl over many years. This is a very special vintage of Rocking Horse as well and a great successor to the magica l 2023 wine. Our vineyard selection supports our vision to deliver a blended Cape White wine of depth, texture and subtlety. In sourcing Roussanne, Chardonnay, Semillon, Clairette blanche and Chenin blanc, we are looking for both heritage and more recently established vineyards which all bring their own unique elements and ability to ‘speak’ about the place in which they are grown. The winemaking remains simple. Our primary challenge during the harvest is to ensure that we pick all of our far-f lung blocks at the right time and get them back to the winery in perfect condition. Once this is achieved, we revert to working with very little in the way of ‘winemaking technique’. We are not looking for a big alcohol expression (nor a low alcohol one for that matter) and prefer subtle wines that show ripeness, while being restrained and elegant. The grapes are whole-bunch pressed and no treatments or additions are used on the juice. This hands-off regime at this early stage really helps to develop the character of the wine. The juice is then racked off the heavy solids and taken to old oak barrels of various volumes. The wines are fermented naturally, and they are allowed to then go through their subsequent malolactic fermentation. We watch them carefully for the next few months until they ‘settle down’, at which point we add some sulphur dioxide. Primary fruit is not what we are looking for here, rather we’re trying to show the underlying character of the grapes and the vineyard where they came from. Th o r n e & D a u g h t e r s hello@thorneanddaughters.com • www.thorneanddaughters.com Raising our handcrafted wines along with our two Daughters