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Majority shareholders in Piekenierskloof Wine Company are Potgieter and Oubaas van Zyl, who follow in the footsteps of their grandfather, Johan Abraham van Zyl, one...
The Steen under the Donkiesbaai label from a Piekenierskloof vineyard planted in 1979 is quickly becoming one of my very favourite. The recently released 2015...
The Grenache as made by Stellenbosch cellar Vriesenhof from Piekenierskloof grapes has always be a wine of restraint and the 2014 is no exception. Matured...
Piekenierskloof Wine Company, previously Citrusdal Wines, is co-owned by the renowned Charles Back, some 700ha of vineyard in the Olifants River region under cultivation. The...
“Unlike the usual full-bodied style of Grenache, this wine rather displays the elegant characteristics of the grape,” reads the back label of Soldaat 2014, part...
Where do people find their strange ideas and fragments of historical misinformation? I daresay I have one or two cranky and mistaken notions of my...
It was International Grenache Day this past Friday and to mark the occasion Neil Ellis Wines hosted a vertical tasting of its wine from this...
From 60-year-old vines grown 760m above sea level in Piekenierskloof, the Tierhoek Grenache 2011 is wonderfully appealing (and pretty good value at R110 a bottle)....
Vriesenhof in Stellenbosch appears resolutely publicity shy and as a result I sometimes forget how satisfying the wines from this cellar are. The approach here...
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