Posts Tagged ‘Paarl’
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
Landskroon Wines
Sunday, June 7th, 2009
I first visited Landskroon in the late 1970’s and met the gentle giant of a man who was Paul de Villiers who looked after the wine production and his brother Hugo, who ran their prize Jersey Stud and their wives who were twin sisters. And their mother Madelief, one of the great ladies of the Cape. She ran a beautiful house with an immaculate garden and served the most wonderful tea you have ever come across in a country home. Taking London Wine Merchants there who felt they had experienced everything was to silence them with the awe in which they held this elegantly
Lindhorst Wines
Sunday, June 7th, 2009
Mark Lindhorst and I go way back when he was a student at Stellenbosch during my time at Lanzerac. After years as a successful accountant his attention to detail in the production of his quality wines is bearing fruit. Lindhorst Wines, is a brand new winery with a focus on a unique Shiraz dominated blend, appropriately named “Statement” and also produces limited quantities of single varietals - vide Lindhorst Pinotage and Shiraz.
The Decanter World International Wine Awards 2004, structured to highlight the