Most wine labels are designed. Ours was drawn.
We spent months considering how to capture everything Nitída stands for — the estate, the land, the quiet life that exists here — before arriving at something we felt was true.

The illustrations were rendered by hand, using inks made from the leaves of the Nitída tree itself. They were not sketched quickly and sent to the printer. They were made with the same patience and intention that goes into every bottle we produce.

The imagery draws from the living world of the estate: the Protea Nitida tree — the Waboom — that gives us our name; the Renosterveld plants that define this critically endangered vegetation type, of which less than three percent remains in the wild; and the creatures who share this land with us.

The Cape Eagle Owl. The Cape Clawless Otter. The Golden Orb spider. The Yellow-billed Duck. The Cape Cobra. Each one a quiet inhabitant of a place we consider ourselves fortunate to steward.

When you hold a bottle of Nitída, you are holding a small piece of this landscape. The label is not decoration — it is a record of what lives here, and a reminder that the wine inside grew from the same soil.