The Roof Terrace venue in Salt River
Lourens van der Westhuizen with his Arendsig wines from Bonnievale
Laurens is consistent, he makes such good wines
We loved his classic and exciting 2024 Sauvignon Blanc, full of those green notes we love, full and layered
His Merlot really impressed. It's spicy, complex and has energy
Ripe berry fruit with good spice and wood on the end
Laurens is consistent, he makes such good wines
We loved his classic and exciting 2024 Sauvignon Blanc, full of those green notes we love, full and layered
His Merlot really impressed. It's spicy, complex and has energy
Ripe berry fruit with good spice and wood on the end
His range of wines
It's a good venue which filled up quickly
Rob Boustred, Sales & Marketing Director and Jean Botha, Tasting room & Brand Manager
at Remhoogte Wine Estate, Stellenbosch
Their 2020 Aspect Merlot is spicy, juicy and full of complexity, a food wine
Fanus, Estelle and Martin Bruwer of Quando, Bonnievale
It was good to catch up. The floods last year affected the farm badly but they have recovered
The 2025 Sauvignon Blanc is crisp, with minerality
The Mourvèdre Rose 2025, just bottled, is golden, rosy and delicious
The 2022 Pinotage has Pinot character in front with lovely fruit, and dark licorice,
a bit Italian in style (as if Italy made Pinotage!)
Bread with pesto and tomato concasse with mozzarella
Nico van der Merwe Wines
Lynne was tasting all the merlots on show. This 2021 was spicy with good wood, and sweet and sour berry flavours
Their daughter with Nico and Petra van der Merwe
Bevan Newton Johnson
The 2023 Albarinho was powerful, crisp and different, so enjoyable with some salty minerality
The 2023 Southend Chardonnay is crisp with minerality and fullness of fruit, with well integrated wood
The 2023 Walker Bay Pinot Noir is intense on the floral, red berry nose and repeats on the excellent palate,
with long flavours of fruit; a food wine, scored high. We are fans
A great welcome from Peter and Nicholas Pentz, Groote Post, Darling
We only had time to taste their Estate Merlot which was exceptional, and classic,
it smells like a very good Merlot and tastes like one too
It has class, but it also has that necessary complexity of layers of good fruit and carefully balanced wood
So well made by Lukas Wentzel
It and their SeaSalter Sauvignon blanc (with the blue top) won Trophies at the Investec Trophy Wine Show
Tanya Reynolds and John Loubser with his Silverthorn Cap Classiques from Bonnievale
Lynne never can pick a favourite from these Cap Classiques, they are all so exceptional
We think John is a master of capturing the fruit in the bottle
This time it was the high scoring NV The Genie Brut Rosé, made from Shiraz,
full of glorious strawberry and raspberry fruit but bone dry,
and the River Dragon Brut made from Old vine Colombard, with its green nose, of crisp apple
which comes through on the crisp punchy palate with great mousse
The rest of his excellent Cap Classiques are made more traditionally, from Pinot noir and Chardonnay
Some brie to have with crackers
Marketing manager Wimpie Borman and winemaker Rudger van Wyk of Doolhof, Wellington. What a pair!
It will be interesting to see what Rudger, a former Young Winemaker of the Year, does there
The 2025 Mountain Range Chenin was crisp and true to varietal
We have some of the Bloedklip from the Limietberg Range in our cellar, waiting to see what it does
Vineyard manager Shane and General manager/winemaker Megan Mullis
of Domaine des Dieux , Hemel en Aarde Ridge with their new harvest
of Domaine des Dieux , Hemel en Aarde Ridge with their new harvest
They had a very special 2011 Anna Louise Blanc de Blanc Cuvée for tasting on the stand and it was the talk of the room
Richness, seven year bottle age and depth in spades with a still very zingy mousse
We have the Gout Anglaise and love older bubbles
Off to an early start (well, probably home to bath and bed!)
The Raats Dolomite Cabernet Franc is a favourite, it is perfumed with dark fruit and tobacco
Layers of red and dark berry fruit, umami, chalk, and minerality support . Another great food wine
Layers of red and dark berry fruit, umami, chalk, and minerality support . Another great food wine
The classic Old vine Chenin Blanc is elegant, and on the palate it's crisp and full, long and layered
Sadly, we did not get to taste Groot Phesantekraal's wines
John has loved the Boschkloof Syrah, made by Jac Borman, since he enjoyed it with Jac at a trade show in the mid 90s
Now made by his son Reenen, it continues the family tradition
Mark Herd, Integretis Holdings, and food publicist Amanda Izak
Brookdale Wines were not tasted because we had just enjoyed a media lunch there
The Vriesenhof 2024 Unwooded Chardonnay was just what we were looking for. .
Superb as always crisp, alluring and classic, full of beautiful Chardonnay golden flavours
We scored this very highly. And we had an opportunity to taste a 12 year old vintage
It's still good, and has the same profile and depth with some soft aging
So many young Chardonnays are being over wooded again,
please stop putting them for 8 months into new oak, it ruins the wine
Did we learn nothing when Chardonnay was classed A B C a few years ago. (Anything But Chardonnay)
Superb as always crisp, alluring and classic, full of beautiful Chardonnay golden flavours
We scored this very highly. And we had an opportunity to taste a 12 year old vintage
It's still good, and has the same profile and depth with some soft aging
So many young Chardonnays are being over wooded again,
please stop putting them for 8 months into new oak, it ruins the wine
Did we learn nothing when Chardonnay was classed A B C a few years ago. (Anything But Chardonnay)
Clark Truter of Siris with Lynne
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