It was an absolutely perfect summer’s day. Nice and warm but not
overwhelmingly hot, with a cool breeze and no sign of a South Easter. Well not
until much, much later in the afternoon.
This lass is cellarmaster Carl Schultz’s
daughter, Michelle
There were 9 farms represented and we started with Jessica Saurwein on
the Klein Constantia stand. Their Riesling is very dry with no residual sugar
showing at all.
Lots of tables and cushions and blankets under the shady trees make for
a great tasting and there was also good food to purchase for lunch. We were
very kindly supplied with a delicious duck salad with orange slices and a
cheese platter with Dalewood cheeses
Bennie Stipp Is the Marketing manager for de Wetshof wines in Robertson
and their Riesling seemed to be the most popular one of the day, if one
listened to what people were saying. It certainly is one of ours, and is full
of crisp limes and lemons with lots of depth. It is off dry, with 20gm/litre of sugar, but the acid balances the sugar so well, that it is almost dry on the palate. Very refreshing too and a good food
wine
Our other favourites were the fragrant and delicious and quite complex
Groote Post and while it is completely different in style to all the others,
showing much more of the rose petal characteristics, we loved the
Altydgedacht
None of these show signs
of heavy or heady terpenes
The wines are served from a barrel top and here are all the farms in a
row, so you can walk up and down tasting and then retire to a table in the
shade for something to eat and drink
The Hartenberg stand saw lots of happy tasters for their excellent
Rieslings and they also treated us to some older vintages, as did some of the
other farms
We met someone fairly new in the wine trade on the Nitida stand. Faith
Pienaar, originally from Johannesburg, is studying Oenology at Stellenbosch
University, but is on an internship at Nitida over harvest time. She has great character and is already fairly
knowledgeable about wine. We think she has a great future in the industry
