De Toren

De Toren Private Cellar is a boutique Stellenbosch estate on the Polkadraai Hills, established in the mid‑1990s by Emil and Sonette den Dulk with the ambition of crafting world‑class Bordeaux-style reds from South African terroir. One of the country’s first wineries to focus exclusively on Bordeaux blends, it also pioneered South Africa’s first fully gravity-fed cellar, designed to treat the grapes and young wines as gently as possible. The vineyards, just 22 hectares, are rooted in very old granite-derived soils a…