A wine with energy and intensity. The high-toned, rapier-like lime fruit is buoyed with sharp ginger, white pepper and flint. Crushed stones and saltiness sustain the refreshing appeal. Good weight of flavour in the mid palate boosted with bright acidity and grippy texture.

Southend is a single vineyard wine that lies in the shadow of the Babylonstoring Mountains in the Upper Hemel-en-Aarde Valley and is owned and farmed by Newton Johnson neighbours, the Pringle family. It is a notably cooler slope, a stone's throw across the river from Newton Johnson, with less sunshine and consequently slower ripening. It produces wines with sparkling clarity, high-toned fruit flavours, compact structure, and vibrant acidity. These features are preserved by fermenting in larger format casks that often ferment slowly into the winter. This parcel takes a steely and light-footed point of difference from the other Chardonnay vineyards of this appellation.