Wines Merely to Lust After
MEERLUST Friday 1 March 2019 http://www.meerlust.co.za/ Experience: 4/5 Wines: 4.5/5 Meerlust is one of those famous, historic South African wine estates that one just has to visit. Today, I was visiting the estates South of Stellenbosch. I had just tasted...
Satisfaction in Getting My Ducks (and Wines) in a Row
VERGENOEGD LÖW ESTATE Friday 1 March 2019 https://vergenoegd.co.za/ Experience: 4.5/5 Wines: 4.5/5 I didn’t know much about Vergenoegd Estate before visiting. I had passed it several times travelling on the R310 from the N2 to West Stellenbosch, but had never...
Blaauwklippen was Good for a Friday
BLAAUWKLIPPEN VINEYARDS Friday 30 March 2018 http://www.blaauwklippen.com/ Experience: 4/5 Wines: 4/5 I have always wanted to visit Blaauwklippen – the home of Zinfandel – but didn’t plan to today. Good Friday was Blaauwklippen’s good luck. My original plan was to...
Mooi Mooi Mooi Mooiplaas
MOOIPLAAS WINE ESTATE Tuesday 23 January 2018 http://mooiplaas.co.za/ Experience: 4/5 Wines: 5/5 Mooiplaas was so close to Kaapzicht – barely a kilometre up the tidy gravel road – that I could not resist visiting. I was super pleased that I...
Kept Alone at Kaapzicht
KAAPZICHT WINE ESTATE Tuesday 23 January 2018 http://www.kaapzicht.co.za/ Experience: 3.5/5 Wines: 3.5/5 Kaapzicht was barely a kilometre along the Bottleray Road from Groenland and an easy turn off up a road flanked by tall trees and opening out through vineyards....
Kosie Wynes at Groenland
GROENLAND WYNES Tuesday 23 January 2018 http://www.groenland.co.za/ Experience: 4/5 Wines: 4/5 It’s a popular misnomer but Greenland is covered in ice and Iceland is more mountain and pasture than ice. ‘Groenland’ thus hardly seems appropriate in the Western Cape at...
The Bestbier Family produces Best Wines at Goede Hoop
GOEDE HOOP WINE ESTATE Thursday 18 January 2018 https://goedehoop.co.za/ Experience: 5/5 Wines: 5/5 Ask around and few will likely have heard of Goede Hoop Wine Estate. I hadn’t either but had found the farm off the Bottleray Road, North-West of...
Bellville to Bellevue to Belle Wines
BELLEVUE ESTATE Thursday 18 January 2018 http://bellevue.co.za/ Experience: 4/5 Wines: 4/5 If it wasn’t for Instagram I would not have visited Bellevue today. I am sure I would have done sooner or later but the social media presence caught my...
Grape Expectations are Met at Zevenwacht
ZEVENWACHT WINE FARM Thursday 11 January 2018 http://www.zevenwacht.co.za/ Experience: 4/5 Wines: 4/5 Zevenwacht sits almost at the back of the listings in my Platter’s Guide, not quite at the end as Zidela Wines, Zonnenbloem and Zorgvliet follow. The tasting visit...
Saxenburg Puts Heart, Mind and Soul into Its Wines
SAXENBURG WINE FARM Thursday 11 January 2018 http://saxenburg.co.za/ Experience: 4/5 Wines: 4/5 The vineyards are closely packed along the Polkadraai Road to the West of Stellenbosch. Saxenburg is one of the most Western of them and should have been my...