“Another year of firsts. We harvested our first Semillon in a very dry year, we were the first winery to appointed Siris Vintners as their Cape Town agent and we celebrated our first of many Club Parties.”
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2010 Michelangelo Silver, 4 stars Wine magazine; 2009 Michelangelo Double Gold (club select) and Gold (standard range) AND BEST PRODUCER ON SHOW, Bartho Eksteen Top 10 SA, Wine Magazine Top 10 (4½ stars); 2008 Michelangelo silver, Veritas gold; 2007 Michelangelo silver, Top 10 wine Bartho Eksteen International Sauvignon Blanc Celebration, Wine Magazine Top 10, Veritas gold; 2005 Michelangelo gold; 2004 Bartho Eksteen - joint 3rd, Veritas silver(’04) (gold ‘05), Platter 4½ stars; 2003 SAA 1st class listing, Fairbairn silver, Veritas gold; 2002 Veritas double gold, Club 500 cultivar winner, International Wine Challenge - silver; 2001 SAA listing; International wine challenge - bronze, best in Wine mag. cultivar tasting (only 4 star wine), Winning wine Bartho Eksteen International; 2000 SAA 1st class listing, Veritas silver medal; 1999 Veritas gold medal, Bartho Eksteen International shootout 6th, Wine magazine - top 7 wines; 1998 Veritas silver medal; 1997 Michelangelo International - silver medal, Veritas silver medal; SAA Long-haul listing; 1996 Veritas silver medal; 1995 Veritas double gold medal.
Stunning balance with huge fruit “peaches, pears and pineapple” plus “grass and green-pepper” with a touch of asparagus “Shows all the individual care and passion now expected in this Nitida wine ”The “acids are racy, the finish wonderful - dry but never arid”.
Winemaker Comments
Always a tricky wine to make, but the more we practice, the better we think we get at it. The hot ripening time made it a particularly challenging vintage, but with careful monitoring of the grapes we were able to capture some beautiful green-pepper and grass aspects, although the tropical fruit flavours are in greater evidence than is our benchmark. Again picked at various degrees of ripeness and from blocks of differing age, aspect and soils.
