El Bandito Mangaliza

Mangaliza is Testalonga's oddball white: 100% Hárslevelű, the Hungarian Tokaj grape, grown in the Swartland and named after the Mangalica, the curly-haired Hungarian pig. Craig Hawkins went looking for the variety after working with it near the Austrian-Hungarian border, and turned up a tiny half-hectare of bush vines planted in 1971 on quartz-flecked decomposed granite in the Paardeberg. Despite the range's orange-wine reputation, this is a pressed white rather than a skin-macerated one: whole bunches straight to the press, wild ferment and a full malolactic in old French oak (225 and 500 litre), un-fined, barely any sulphur. Dry at 12%, and a rare Cape outing for a Hungarian grape.