The Western Cape’s Mediterranean climate is defined by hot, dry summers and wet winters. Whatever wines we put in the bottle, we owe much of it to the character and landscapes of our majestic Cape winelands that have been sculpted by remarkably varied weather patterns and geological formations since the dawn of time. These ancient, now trellised slopes and valleys that contain many different rock and soil types, are characterised by magnificent sandstone mountains punched upwards from the restless shifting of tectonic plates aeons ago, with endless rounded granite foothills merging into undulating shale hillocks.