Tuesday, May 10, 2022

Elgin Cool Wine Festival - 7. Paul Wallace

We love finishing the Elgin Cool Wine and other festivals at Paul Wallace Wines
It belongs to our friends Paul and Nicky Wallace
Nicky has recently been ill, so we wanted to see how she and Paul were doing
It is always one of the most popular wine farms to visit
and it was good to see their son Bobby, assistant winemaker at Iona, who was helping out

Lots of folk enjoying the afternoon and sampling the wines on this outdoor stand or inside the tasting room
We had a lovely glass of the Paul Wallace Chardonnay, so ripe and layered in flavour and quality,
and so good to enjoy in the sunshine

and we met new Sea Point friends Amos and Lerato, to whom we had chatted at Iona

Paul was very busy selling cases of his excellent wines

and it was good to see Nicky on the mend. She organised the festival this year and it is a lot of work

They had a good food truck with lots of choices at reasonable prices and Lynne was feeling a bit peckish,
so she had the sliced rump steak roll. Good value and great flavours

Good music too 

Black dogs are a Wallace trademark. The Black Dog Malbec was named for Jake, the late Rottweiler
This is Angus the labrador, the new generation and he loves people

Black Dog is a ripe and ready Malbec with dark berry fruit, licorice and good wood
that just amazes each year and improves with age

The Little Flirt Sauvignon Blanc has many of the lovely Elgin characteristics;
fig leaf, freshness, zingy apple and granadilla flavours

We sat on the stoep enjoying the wine and the camaraderie,
after which it was time to head home after a great weekend
Elgin is only one hour from the city and is a wonderful place to take a break and enjoy the wines,
the scenery and the wonderful hospitality

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Elgin Cool Wine Festival - 6. Iona

Iona is on top of a hill, on the opposite side of the valley from Almenkerk and has some of the highest vineyards

The Manor House where a special lunch you had to book for was taking place

We went to the area in front of the tasting room and enjoyed the sunshine

The Iona tasting room

Four wines to taste at the festival. We began with the 2020 Sauvignon Blanc,
with a nose full of grass, fig leaves and green pepper
The same flavours follow through on the full palate with the addition of granadilla and lime,
a style of Sauvignon Blanc we really enjoy

The 2020 Chardonnay is slightly smoky with lime and grapefruit on the nose, with peaches and cream on the palate,
then crisp limes, long flavours; it's very quaffable

The 2020 Pinot Noir has smoke and dark berries on the nose and palate
with Rhubarb, mulberry and morello cherry with good chalky tannins

And we took our glass of 2020 One Man Band outside in the sun
Dark cherry berry fruit, a lovely mouthful of bruléed berries,
it is soft and juicy with spice, licorice, salt and dark toast on the end
Another wine to quaff and to enjoy with food

Young people enjoying the swing

Andrew Gunn collects cars. The original of his 1956 oval window VW Beetle is the parent of all rear-engined Porsches
and you can also see his favourite motor bike

The Porsche 356, Andrew Gunn's first car, was bought used in 1969 for R675; The 2017 911 GT3 RS, was more expensive

The vineyard has magnificent views over Elgin. Go and visit, you will be glad you did;
it is worth the ride up the good dirt road, which is very well graded

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