by | Jan 2, 2017 | Articles
By Su Birch | www.the-buyer.net The Old Vine Project in South Africa is an attempt to both discover vines and help make wines from vineyards that go back 35 years or more, but also convince growers and buyers that these vines need to be protected and nurtured. Su...
by | Jan 2, 2017 | Viticulture
By Jaco Engelbrecht | www.visualviticulture.co.za We have a little experiment on a farm in the Voor-Perdeberg area. It is a block of Cabernet Sauvignon with supplementary irrigation (not the one in the photo, that is Cinsaut for The Blacksmith Barebones). The soil...
by | Jan 2, 2017 | Articles
By Su Birch | www.winemag.co.za In Stellenbosch you’ll find two men with a mission – a mission to safeguard South Africa’s ’s heritage of old vines. Armed only with secateurs and laptops, they face a huge challenge. André Morgenthal who spent 15 years at Wines of...
by | Dec 30, 2016 | Articles
The plight of old vines, or more correctly, of the owners of old vineyards, has been in the media lately. It is becoming increasingly clear that, pretty much at the same time as we have discovered the joy of wines made with fruit harvested from old vines, we’re about...
by | Nov 5, 2016 | Viticulture
By Jaco Engelbrecht | www.visualviticulture.co.za So we where off to our final stop – a bizarre vineyard on the West Coast, planted in what seems to be a flattened sand dune… I first laid eyes on this vineyard back in 2010, when I was still the viticulturist at...
