Bruce Jack Wines Tumbleweed Wild Sauvignon Blanc 2026
£9.75
The wine
Grown in cooler Swartland, Elim and Overberg sites with maritime influence, this Sauvignon Blanc balances delicate green notes with tropical fruit and a hint of minerality. Crisp acidity drives the lively, dry finish.
Wild fermentation means the wine starts on the yeasts present on the grapes and in the cellar rather than a cultured strain, which gives a slower, less predictable ferment and more textural complexity. Swartland Sauvignon is a warmer, broader style than the Cape's coastal versions, with more weight and less overt green fruit.
The producer
Bruce Jack Wines
View all Bruce Jack Wines winesBruce Jack Wines is a small team built around head winemakers Bruce Jack and Marlize Beyers, who have worked together since 2002 and between them have experience across a great many of the world's wine regions.
The wines are sourced from across the Western Cape rather than from a single estate, which is deliberate: Swartland for old bush-vine Chenin and Syrah, the cooler Overberg and Cape coast for aromatics and acidity, Breedekloof for Viognier. Working that way lets them choose the site that suits each grape instead of forcing everything from one patch of ground.
Tumbleweed is the everyday range and Off the Charts the more adventurous one, taking in skin-contact whites and old-vine parcels. Skin contact means white grapes fermented on their skins as though they were red, which draws out colour, texture and grip; it is one of the oldest methods in winemaking and one of the most fashionable, and the Cape's old Chenin and Clairette vineyards are unusually well suited to it.
