Baby Bandito Keep On Punching 2023 - Testalonga

Baby Bandit Keep On Punching Testalonga

Craig Hawkins is one of the most influential and certainly most exciting wine producers of, not just South Africa, but the New World. He produces wine in Swartland in South Africa, and has helped to change the image of South African wine. Craig Testalonga wines often have such complexity, derived from his winemaking methods, that the authorities do not know how to face it: he is denied the export certification on an annual basis because of its wines lacking "typicality." Its Baby Bandito Keep On Punching is obtained from old Chenin Blanc vineyards planted in 1972. Spontaneous vinification in steel tanks and aging in them. Bandito Keep On Punching is straw yellow The nose reveals very fresh and lively notes of citrus and white peach.The palate is fine, light and very fresh with a pleasant closure.Small and good, it becomes immediately unavailable.

Service

We taste the Keep On Punching Bandit Baby at a temperature of 14/16 ° in tulip glasses. Daily wine.

Pairings

A wine that is well suited to appetizers, pasta dishes 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.