Grace du Roi sure to sparkle

FLORAL and fruity notes bursting from the slightly larger-than-usual bubbles tickle the palate and transport you to leafy green fields and fresh streams.

That is the feeling you will get when you taste the prestige collection of the new-to-the-market Grace du Roi.

It is dry but fruity with whiffs of peaches and pears lightly hitting the nose.

Made from low yields of chardonnay grapes from the dry Winelands surrounding Paarl, the wines are hugely flavoursome.

Rowan Leibbrandt, founding owner of premium drinks company, Truman & Orange, said: “Grace du Roi sparkling wines and MCCs are set to shake up the South African bubbly scene.

“Historically, the world of fine wine has been complicated, focused on the seriousness of the grape and how it’s produced, which is a very masculine approach. Men love to know how things are made. Grace du Roi is more female-centric, more modern and more fashionable.

“The women we’re producing it for want to know that it’s unquestionably quality liquid, but they don’t want to hear incessantly about the product or how it’s made. That’s not what they’re focused on. They are more interested in its design, its look, what it tastes like and it’s fashionability.”

“Young, female drinkers are confidently drinking what they want in public. Grace du Roi is a new-age wine, made for this young, modern, confident female drinker who is making her own decisions and buying her own drinks, rather than having them bought for her.” added Leibbrandt.

The feminine, sophisticated and classy prosecco, is popular not only in South Africa where sales are up 24%, but globally, where 325 million bottles of this premium Italian sparkling wine are sold a year. This is primarily because of its crisper, slightly sweeter and more delicate than the MCC, coupled with subtler fizz and softer bubble than sparkling wine.

Leibbrandt said while the grapes were South African and not from the French Champagne region, both the Mionetto Prosecco Doc Treviso Brut and the Grace Du Roi were made using the French fermentation process or “methode champenoise”, where the liquid spends nine months developing flavour in the bottle.

As the world’s best-selling prosecco, its R200 a bottle price tag answers the call for a premium, exceptionally made, genuine Italian prosecco that’s fit for any occasion.