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Anybody paying R549 a bottle for Moet & Chandon Brut Imperial or R759 for Veuve Cliquot (Makro prices at time of writing) is seriously misguided...
Ann Ferreira refers to husband, Graham Beck chief operating officer and chairman of the Cap Classique Producers Association as “her winemaker” – although her range...
The Chardonnay-Pinot Noir Extra Brut from Pieter Ferreira, dates from 2016 and has been called “Birdsong” since 2018. The newly released 2019 is priced at...
The definition of “Extra Brut” for Cap Classique is that residual sugar should be less than 6g/l, the Blanc de Blancs 2017 from Pieter Ferreira...
Pinot Noir-based Cap Classique often tends to be somewhat rudimentary – ordinary grapes picked early – but that is not the case with the Rosé...
Pieter “Bubbles” Ferreira, chief operating officer at Cap Classique house Graham Beck, makes the stuff but it his wife Ann who officially owns the Pieter...
I wrote of the maiden vintage 2012 Blanc de Blancs from Pieter Ferreira that it was “categorically the best bottle-fermented sparkling wine I’ve ever drunk...
A very extended period of lees contact to build complexity seems to be an increasingly common practice when it comes to top-end Cap Classique but...
The sub-category of Cap Classique that is Rosé tends to be slightly weaker relative to Brut or Blanc de Blancs essentially because these wines are...
The 2013 vintage of Pieter Ferreira Extra Brut Blanc de Blancs that follows the much lauded 2012 is now out and again it’s superlative stuff....
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