{"product_id":"thorne-daughters-tin-soldier-semillon-gris","title":"Thorne \u0026 Daughters Tin Soldier Semillon Gris 2024","description":"\u003cstyle\u003etable\n\t{mso-displayed-decimal-separator:\"\\.\";\n\tmso-displayed-thousand-separator:\"\\,\";}\ntr\n\t{mso-height-source:auto;}\ncol\n\t{mso-width-source:auto;}\ntd\n\t{padding-top:1px;\n\tpadding-right:1px;\n\tpadding-left:1px;\n\tmso-ignore:padding;\n\tcolor:black;\n\tfont-size:11.0pt;\n\tfont-weight:400;\n\tfont-style:normal;\n\ttext-decoration:none;\n\tfont-family:\"Aptos Narrow\", sans-serif;\n\tmso-font-charset:0;\n\ttext-align:general;\n\tvertical-align:bottom;\n\tborder:none;\n\twhite-space:nowrap;\n\tmso-rotate:0;}\n.xl18\n\t{font-size:10.0pt;\n\tfont-family:Arial, sans-serif;\n\tmso-font-charset:0;\n\twhite-space:normal;}\n\u003c\/style\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003ctable width=\"327\"\u003e\n\u003ccolgroup\u003e\u003ccol width=\"327\"\u003e\u003c\/colgroup\u003e\n\u003ctbody\u003e\n\u003ctr height=\"20\"\u003e\n\u003ctd width=\"327\" height=\"20\" class=\"xl18\"\u003eEvery Thorne \u0026amp; Daughters wine is named after a child's toy, and this one nods to Semillon's old role as the foot soldier of the Cape industry. A century ago the variety accounted for something like 95% of all South African wine, and it has since been reduced to a shadow of that. Sémillon Gris or \"Rooi-Groen\", the red-skinned mutation, is rarer still: John and Tasha Seccombe source this from a single granite-sand block on the Paardeberg in the Swartland, propagated by sélection massale from cuttings of a neighbouring 1964 vineyard so the old clonal diversity carries over. Fascinated by how those mixed old vineyards would once have been vinified, John ferments roughly half the crop on its skins for a week or so with indigenous yeasts, the rest whole-bunch pressed straight to barrel, then blends the two for aromatic lift over savoury depth. The skins leave it an unusual copper colour: citrus peel, stem ginger, papaya and almond, dry and finely structured with a properly saline, long finish. Deliberately not a novelty, there is real substance here.\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003c\/tbody\u003e\n\u003c\/table\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Thorne \u0026 Daughters","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54067083804979,"sku":null,"price":300.0,"currency_code":"ZAR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0994\/6936\/1459\/files\/Thorne_DaughtersTinSoldier.png?v=1789215646","url":"https:\/\/openbottle.co.za\/products\/thorne-daughters-tin-soldier-semillon-gris","provider":"OPEN BOTTLE","version":"1.0","type":"link"}