Hemelrand Vine Garden is a unique vineyard that produces a unique wine. The idea is to bottle the wine just as the vineyard produces it, effectively creating a white field blend that changes every year depending on the vintage conditions. This way we have one place expressed by a few different grapes, changing as the season dictates. The wine is…
2022 was around 10 days later than usual for Sauvignon blanc and our average of the maximum temperatures for the 4 crucial months leading up to and during harvest was 25.18 centigrade, higher than our long-term average of 24.63 centigrade and higher than 2021. While ripening was slow and extended, harvest was fortunately complete before the first rains in early…
Made using uncomplicated (not simple) winemaking techniques, this is an athletic, chiseled and precise wine. It embraces the very adult tastes of salinity, brininess and minerality, all of which are the hallmarks of the great and classic white wines of the world.
Greek for “a serene state of mind, free from worry and preoccupation”, Ataraxia lives up to the hype. Aptly called The Skyfields, Ataraxia Wines is perfectly positioned on a commanding rise in the beautiful Hemel-en-Aarde wine-growing area.
Greek for “a serene state of mind, free from worry and preoccupation”, Ataraxia lives up to the hype. Aptly called The Skyfields, Ataraxia Wines is perfectly positioned on a commanding rise in the beautiful Hemel-en-Aarde wine-growing area.
We are a boutique family winery in the picturesque town of Stellenbosch, South Africa. We focus on handcrafted fine wines to be enjoyed locally and internationally. The Borman family put great effort and detail into every bottle of Boschkloof produced, allowing fellow wine lovers to share their passion of wine.
We are a boutique family winery in the picturesque town of Stellenbosch, South Africa. We focus on handcrafted fine wines to be enjoyed locally and internationally. The Borman family put great effort and detail into every bottle of Boschkloof produced, allowing fellow wine lovers to share their passion of wine.
We are a boutique family winery in the picturesque town of Stellenbosch, South Africa. We focus on handcrafted fine wines to be enjoyed locally and internationally. The Borman family put great effort and detail into every bottle of Boschkloof produced, allowing fellow wine lovers to share their passion of wine.
Although a rarity today, orange wines have been made for 6 000 years, originating in Georgia and Northern Italy. Yet the process is still the same: white grapes are fermented on their skins giving the wine a golden/orange colour and a complex texture, tannin and flavour. Corlea describes these wines as showing "the next level in fruit maturation". The Bosman…
Botanica Wines was founded in 2009 by owner and self-taught winemaker Ginny Povall, an intrepid American who fell in love with the beautiful Cape winelands, purchased Protea Heights farm in Stellenbosch’s Devon Valley and relocated to the southern tip of Africa in 2008. Established in the late 1940s, Protea Heights was the first farm in South Africa to cultivate indigenous…
Christian Eedes Tasting Note: Grapes from a Piekenierskloof planted in 2010 at an altitude of 720m above sea level, it was fermented and matured for nine months in an older large-format barrel. A 7% portion of Swartland Chenin Blanc is added before bottling for extra interest. Peach, naartjie, earth, a slight leesy note plus spice on the nose while the palate…
The Reisiger 2022 is made from 29-year-old Colombar bush vines grown by Danie “Dumpies” van der Merwe from Mostertshoek near Goudini in the Breedekloof.
