Baby Bandito Follow Your Dreams 2023 - Testalonga

Baby Bandito Follow Your Dreams - Testalonga

Baby Bandito Follow Your Dreams by Testalonga is a Carignan-based red wine. A natural, fresh and precise wine with aromas of cherry and raspberry, balanced but at the same time snappy. The names of the wines come from expressions that are used to give encouragement to a child. "Follow your Dreams" is a quote made famous by the street artist, Banksy, while the photo was taken by his brother Mark while on vacation in Vietnam. The grapes come from the dry soils of Swartland and are harvested by hand. Spontaneous whole-bunch fermentation and aging in used oak barrels. A slight clarifying filtration was done before bottling the wine. 

Service

We taste the Baby Bandito Follow Your Dreams at a temperature of 14/16 ° in tulip glasses. Daily wine but left a few years in the cellar can give great emotions.

Pairings

A wine that is well suited to appetizers, first courses seasoned with vegetables, to try with stuffed aubergine rolls.

Cellar: Testalonga

The Testalonga project was born in 2008 from an idea of ​​Craig Hawkins, a young South African producer with experiences in various cellars between Austria and Portugal, where he was fortunate to work with Eben Sadie, Stephane Ogier and Remy Pedreno of Roc d'Anglande, and Tom Lubbe of Domaine Matassa. The winery is located in Bandits Kloof in Piketberg, the northern part of Swartland. Testalonga is named after an old Italian, called Testalonga, who produced wines from those parts. Craig asked him one day if he could use his name, and Testalonga laughing gave him his consent. Craig has an idea of ​​well-defined wine, hinged on three hinges: purity, expressiveness and drinkability, all seasoned by a healthy spirit as an experimenter never domo. Testalonga, despite its young age, is considered among the leading companies in the world of alternative wines. It produces about 40,000 bottles divided into a battery that includes its own surprising bottles: chenin, macerated chenin, harslevelü, sparkling colombard, muscat of Alexandria, cinsault, mourvedre, syrah and amarela tint. Their wines are exciting, even striking for the South African wine culture, without forgetting the labels strongly influenced by the style of the great street artists, they comment on their own.