Sadly, we had to miss the Veritas Wine Awards this
month as we were away with our Wine Club in Bot River, so we were very keen to
go and taste some of the top medal winners at this year’s open tasting at the
CTICC. KWV did not enter any of their really vintage wines this year, so there
was no rare wine to taste but there were many great current vintages and some older
ones from the farms that entered. It is always a very sociable evening. If you
want to see this year's results in full click on the link: http://veritas.co.za/awards_brochure/files/assets/basic-html/page-1.html#
There were 638 entries this year, and there were 71 Double Golds, 193 Gold, 654
Silver and 554 bronze medals
Held in the huge Banqueting
Hall, there was a huge number of wines to taste in a short time. We had come
from an event at lunchtime, at Groot Phesantekraal, which stretched into the afternoon!
Maastricht was a fairly new
wine for us. It comes from Durbanville and we discovered that Etienne Louw, who
is making the wines for Altydgedacht and Groot Phesantekraal, is also making
these for them. Very good Sauvignon Blanc, just what you would expect from
Etienne and from Durbanville grapes, climate and terroir
Double Gold for the Laborie
Blanc de Blanc, one of our most preferred Blanc de Blanc MCCs, the 2011 made at
KWV (made by Johan Fourie, now at Benguela Cove) and The Mentors divine 2012
Noble Late Harvest from KWV
The Mentors wine maker Izelle
van Blerk offering us a taste of the KWV Classic Collection Petit Verdot 2016
which was awarded a silver
Warren Ellis, winemaker and viticulturalist of Neil Ellis Wines, opens another bottle of his great Grenache
and gives us a big smile....
© John & Lynne Ford, Adamastor & Bacchus 2017
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