ABSA Top 10 Pinotage Awards
We are very excited to announce that our maiden 2019 vintage is a Winner of the Absa Top 10 Pinotage 2021 competition. The results were announced at a prestigious awards ceremony at the Grande Roche Hotel in Paarl on Tuesday 31 August 2021. It is an overwhelming feeling to make it to the Top 10 in this, our first entry into this competition. Grapes come from two 27-year-old dryland bush vine...
Decant World Wine Awards 2021
The results for the 2021 Decanter World Wine Awards were released today. Another stellar result came our way as our 2019 Pinotage was awarded a gold medal and scored 96 points! Of the 18 904 wines evaluated from across the world, only 3.51% were awarded a gold medal. We are truly blessed to be in such great company, and this result yet again confirms that we are heading in the right direction...
Winemag / Prescient Pinotage Report 2021
This year’s Pinotage Report, sponsored by multinational financial services company Prescient received 58 entries from 46 producers and the wines were tasted blind (labels out of sight) by a three-person panel, scoring done according to the 100-point quality scale. I'm extremely grateful for another positive rating which has come our way. Not only did the maiden vintage receive a Top 10 award and...
2021 Harvest Report
In our previous newsletter I mentioned that I was very excited about the quality prospects for the 2021 vintage, and that all the signs were there that it will be a harvest to remember, and I can now safely say that my expectations did not disappoint! The harvest started about 14 days later than the long-term average, making it an exceptionally late season. On the 14th of January we removed all...