It is not common to find this many of this producer’s amazing wines in one offer. This limited pre-sale offer closes this week .
The wines arrive mid-May from the US importer out of Virginia.
USA Low Pricing!
Hereafter Here 2024 $43.99
Cartology White 2024 $57.99
Hemelrand Vine Garden 2024 $49.99
Fire by Night 2024 $69.99
Huilkrans 2024 $99.99
5% off all 6 bottle orders - mix & match OK with code ‘ALHEIT’
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Hereafter Here 2024 $43.99
94 pts Tim Atkin
Hereafter Here uses grapes from what Chris Alheit regards as younger vines, combining equal portions of Chenin Blanc from Piekenierskloof, the Swartland and the Polkadraai Hills. Textured, scented and engaging, it has lovely aniseed and lanolin top notes, the weight that’s typical of the 2024s and a bright, lemongrass finish. Drink 2025-2029
93 pts Wine Advocate
90 pts Vinous Media
*Tasting notes for these scores in the product pages
The Winery Hereafter Here is a young vineyard wine. The great thing about planting young vines is that you can choose the site and the material purely for the sake of quality wine. Some of our favourite growers have already planted new vines, as will we on our own farm in the coming years. I find the idea of planting for the future very exciting! Our kids will have nice mature vines to work with. This is also a great space for us to nurture younger parcels that are very good but still too young for Cartology.
Cartology White 2024 $57.99
96 pts Tim Atkin To make Cartology, Chris Alheit sourced Chenin Blanc from seven different sub-regions of the Western Cape – Bottelary, False Bay, Malmesbury, Piekenierskloof, Skurfberg, the Paardeberg and Tygerberg – blended with 8% Semillon from La Colline in Franschhoek. Up there with the best releases of his signature wine, it has jasmine and aniseed aromas, effortless concentration, pear, apricot and fresh lime flavours and a mouth-watering finish. Drink 2025-2031
95 pts Wine Advocate
93 pts Vinous Media
*Tasting notes for these in the product pages
The Winery Cartology is a vinous exploration of Cape heritage. It’s intended to be a picture of the Cape seen through the lens of her old vineyards in a given vintage. The cuveé is composed of rare and extraordinary parcels of mature dryland bushvines, of heritage grapes, namely Chenin Blanc and Semilllon. These grapes have been planted in the Cape for centuries. Cartology has become our staple offering. It serves as a poster child for our project, and also seems to have become a flag bearer for Cape heritage wine in general.
Hemelrand Vine Garden 2024 $49.99
94 pts Vinous Media**Drinking Window 2026 - 2042The 2024 Hemelrand Vine Garden comes from Hemel en Aarde Ridge at 360m altitude. It has a gorgeous bouquet with lemon balm, orange zest and just peach skin, absolutely beautiful. The palate has exquisite balance, a little more weight than the Chenins, a touch of orange pith and lemongrass, with a touch of white pepper on the finish. Real tension throughout this white blend. This really gains harmony with aeration in the glass and manifests a little more saltiness that urges you back for more. - By Neal Martin on August 2025
93 pts Wine Advocate
93 pts Tim Atkin
*Tasting notes for these in the product pages
The Vineyard (winery)
Hemelrand is special to us because this is ground zero, where our project started and still resides. It’s situated on the cold and windy Hemel & Aarde Ridge at 360 meters above sea level on gravelly clay and sandstone. Viticulturally speaking this is a marginal site, the upside of which is slow ripening with high natural acidity. Hemelrand is meticulously farmed by Hans Evenhuis and his team, hence the name Vine Garden. The vineyard was planted in 2010 to Chardonnay, Roussanne, Verdelho, Chenin blanc, and Muscat Blanc a petit grain – one place expressed by a few different grapes. The proportions of the different grapes produced varies each vintage. The idea is to bottle the wine just as the vineyard produces it, effectively creating a white field blend that changes every year as the season dictates. The wine is always remarkable and continues to gain in stature as the vines mature.
Fire by Night 2024 $69.99
97 pts Tim Atkin
Fire by Night showcases the quality of the Alheits’ Nuwedam property on the decomposed granite soils of the Paardeberg. The yields were painfully low at 0.5 tons per hectare, but the wine is serene, not stressed with lots of pithy acidity, the saltiness of its terroir, some earthy notes from 50% cement ageing, green apple and lemon juice flavours and steely, obsidian-like acidity. Drink 2026 - 2032
95 pts Wine Advocate
94 pts Vinous Media
*Tasting notes for these in the product pages
The Winery The mountain itself is quite a sight. Tall granite domes tower over ridges and slopes of all aspects and elevations. There are deep kloofies and wild places high up where nobody goes. Small farmhouses and cottages dot the landscape below. Mysterious patchwork plots of agriculture are visible on distant ridges. The place has a distinctly three-dimensional feeling. Paardeberg is the epicentre of a quality revolution that has swept the Swartland for the past two decades. Driven by a few visionary producers, the Paardeberg’s identity has been reimagined. It now produces some of the Cape’s most wonderful wines. Many formerly undervalued vineyards are now held dear. Our farm on the Paardeberg is called Nuwedam. We have 20 Ha of unirrigated old bushvines on pure decomposed granite soils, all planted between 1972 and 1985. Low yields and tiny berries result in wines that can be textured and quite powerful, but still have a brightness and nervous energy about them. We find flavours of limey citrus, thatch, and honey on these wines. They tend to have a very linear and long form on the palate. These vineyards make Fire by Night, and also contribute significantly to Cartology
Huilkrans 2024 $99.99
Aka the SKURFBERG vineyard (of Sadie fame), this is **100% Chenin Blanc!
98 pts Tim Atkin Chris Alheit describes Huilkrans as the “deeper baritone” to the “tenor” of the Magnetic North and I know what he means. Sourced from the Oudam farm, it has a slightly ferrous, ?earthy note that grounds the wine in its Citrusdal Mountain terroir. Broad, concentrated and delicately wooded, it displays flavours of green olive, yellow apple and fennel, a textured mid-palate, understated power and wonderful palate length. Drink 2026-38
96 pts Wine Advocate
93 pts Vinous Media
*Tasting notes for these in the product pages
The Vineyard (winery)
Imagine a wild open landscape, isolated, elevated, and pure. A quintessentially Cape landscape of rocky outcrops and rooibos fields, craggy mountains, and distant neighbours. This mind-blowing region is way out there in the middle of nowhere, almost 5 hours’ drive from our cellar and worth every mile. Dry farmed old bushvines growing on red sand over red clay produce wines marked by bristling acidity and clarity of flavour, earthy minerality and natural power. Every vintage they reaffirm the extraordinary properties of this landscape. Skurfberg is now cemented as one of the Cape’s most extraordinary winegrowing areas. We work with two farms here: The ungrafted Chenin bushvines growing at 540 m above sea-level on Arbeidseind farm produce the wine called Magnetic North. Oudam farm is close by, a little lower down at 450 m above sea-level, and produces Huilkrans. Both farms also contribute to Cartology.
All About Alheit from South Africa
Founded in 2010 by Chris and Suzaan Alheit, Alheit Vineyards has become one of the defining estates of South Africa’s modern fine wine movement. From the outset, their mission has been clear: to articulate the Cape’s identity through old vineyards, minimal intervention, and a deep respect for place.
Rather than relying on a single estate, the Alheits work with a mosaic of historic, dry-farmed bush-vine parcels scattered across the Western Cape—regions such as Swartland, Stellenbosch, Franschhoek, and Citrusdal Mountain. Many of these vineyards are decades old, rooted in granite, schist, shale, and sandstone soils, and farmed without irrigation.
This patchwork approach is central to their philosophy. Each vineyard is treated as a unique voice, vinified separately and then blended (or bottled alone) to express site-specific nuance. Their flagship wine, Cartology, is emblematic of this idea—a “map” of the Cape built from heritage Chenin Blanc and Sémillon vineyards.
In the cellar, the Alheits are staunch minimalists. Fermentations are spontaneous with native yeasts; élevage takes place in neutral vessels such as old barrels, foudres, clay amphorae, and concrete eggs; and there is no fining, acidification, or new oak influence. The goal is purity—wines that are transparent reflections of vineyard, vintage, and South African terroir.
Today, Alheit stands at the forefront of the Cape’s “New Wave,” widely regarded as one of the leading producers of Chenin Blanc globally and a key force in elevating the status of old-vine South African whites.
The Alheit WEBSITE is AMAZING, a lot of detail and GREAT videos on the winery and each vineyard with incredible drone footage of the terroir!
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