Wines and Winemaking Philosophy

de la terre wines have their own ‘signature’ – full-flavoured with elegant and balanced mouthfeel and a touch of complexity. In most cases, the wines are slightly outside what would be regarded as the mainstream style for the varieties. Food and wine matching is a particular focus – our wine style is designed to provide elegant balanced wines to accompany food.

Our hand-crafted approach goes right through the winemaking process – from hand-picking all the fruit, through gentle handling at the winery using traditional winemaking techniques. Nothing is rushed and with the emphasis on minimal handling, every effort is made to retain the integrity and concentration of the fruit and our unique terroir. The wines are a fusion of high-tech winemaking knowledge with traditional hands-on winemaking methods in the cellar.

We bottle all our wines on site, every bottle is hand labelled and the Reserve wines are individually numbered. Continuing our hands-on theme, we designed our logo and wine labels. The logo is based on a symbol for Earth – a circle with a cross through it.