Tasting scale
Oak
Body
Tasting notes
Lemon
Oak
Grassy Nettles
Food pairing
Excellent with seafood such as fresh oysters, crayfish, calamari, prawns and mussels, chicken and pasta dishes, vegetables and fresh summer salads.
Production
The grapes were hand harvested during the early hours of the morning. The bunches were destemmed and the juice fermented in a combination of second and third fill small oak barrels of 300 litres. The fermentation temperature of each barrel was monitored regularly. The wine, kept on the lees for 10 months, was stirred periodically to add creaminess and complexity.
Winery
The Heritage Heroes is a gourmet collection of handmade, ultra premium wines, each individually named to honour a personality who has played a role in shaping Nederburg's history and reputation. The Young Airhawk pays tribute to Johann Graue�۪s son, Arnold. Graue senior, who bought Nederburg in 1937, played a key role in improving viticultural standards in South Africa. Like his father, Arnold introduced many technical innovations at Nederburg and was renowned for his winemaking prowess. Trained as a winemaker in Europe, his wines won many prizes at the Cape during his short career in the late 1940s and early 1950s. He died tragically at 29 in a light-aircraft crash.