Posts Tagged ‘Glen Carlou’
A sublime lunch at Glen Carlou
Sunday, October 9th, 2011
When the Swiss-based Hess Family Estates entered the wine industry in 1978, its mission was clear: to focus on the production of premium quality wines. Today, Hess Family Estates owns six New World cellars and vineyards: the Hess Collection and Artezin Wines in Napa, California; Sequana Wines in Russian River, California; Bodega Colomé in Argentina, as well as the major share in Peter Lehmann Wines, Australia and Glen Carlou Vineyards in the Paarl region of South Africa.
On a fairy tale weekend recently, Madeleine and I lunched at Glen Carlou Winery in Paarl. I had eaten there several times before, but it was
Glen Carlou
Thursday, June 4th, 2009
Glen Carlou, a 145 ha vineyard near Paarl, is one of the region's finest wine estates. Purchased several years ago by well-known South African winemaker, Walter Finlayson, twice named as Diner's Club Winemaker of the Year, who recognised its potential for producing wine grapes of outstanding quality.
No stranger to the rehabilitation of wine farms or the production of fine wines, Walter transformed Glen Carlou by careful preparation of almost topsoil free soils and followed by the planting of virus free varieties. In 1989 the Winery whose design incorporates ideas used in the winemaking regions of the USA and France was built into the mountainside at