“A brilliant little operation this, one of the Cape’s brightest young stars, in a very cool area indeed, the Jonkershoek Valley. UK winewriter Jancis Robinson recently singled out the Condé Cab as one of her favourites; 5-star ratings for both its Cabs have been notched up in this guide within a couple of years; US Wine Spectator has rated them 90-plus. All this when the wines were being fashioned in an old farm house. Now graphic designer-become winemaker José Condé has revamped his winery, to achieve ‘more control, better quality’. There will be ‘no compromise’, he adds.”

 

Stark-Condé Wines is a family-run winery making hand-crafted wines using tried-and true traditional methods. Our total production is less than 3000 cases, making us one of South Africa’s few true boutique wineries. Meticulous viticulture, selected harvesting, grape-sorting, small-batch fermenting, careful barrel maturation; these are our guiding philosophies. We are trying to make carefully crafted wines that speak with personality of a particular place. All of our wines are made from grapes from our own “Oude Nektar” farm vineyards in Jonkershoek Valley in Stellenbosch. In addition to being viticulturally ideal, they are also pretty spectacular visually! Vineyard elevation range from between 200 to 500 metres above sea level and we have a range of aspects which give us a correspondingly broad range of fruit characteristics.