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The Cape Vintage Reserve 2016 from De Krans in Calitzdorp is monumental. A blend of 74% Touriga Nacional, 18% Tinta Barocca and 8% Tinta Roriz,...
The Tritonia White 2017 from De Krans in Calitzdorp is bonkers. It consists of 63% Malvasia Rei (or Palamino), this from a vineyard planted in...
88 De Krans Wild Ferment Unwooded Chardonnay 2018 WO Calitzdorp Total production: 6,216 bottles Price: R74 From low-yielding vines planted in old clay Gamka riverbed...
One of the curiosities of the list of 5-Star wines in Platter’s 2018 is that there is only one Port-style wine, namely the Delaire Graff...
Calitzdorp cellar De Krans has shown some admirable innovation in recent times. The flagship Tritonia Red 2014, a blend of 67% Touriga Nacional, 22% Tinta...
Colleague Tim James is very optimistic about the role that Portuguese varieties can play when it comes to local table wines (see here) while I’m...
De Krans managing director Boets Nel and Louis van der Riet insist that there’s more to this Calitzdorp winery than Port-style wines and yesterday showed...
Recently a shoot-out between De Krans The Last Cape Vintage Reserve Port 2010 and Muratie Ben Prins Cape Vintage 2009. The De Krans a blend...
The latest incarnation of Tawny from De Krans is extraordinarily pale in colour, fruity and light. There’s cherry but also notes of orange and even...
It is predicted that with climate change, South Africa’s traditional wine growing areas are going to become hotter and drier and inevitably there will be...
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