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Boet Erasmus 2007 wins the South African Red Wine Trophy at the International Wine Challenge
Tuesday, July 6th, 2010On the 30th of June 2010, Vrede en Lust’s flagship Bordeaux style red blend, the Boet Erasmus 2007, was awarded the Best South African Red Wine Trophy at the International Wine Challenge (IWC) in London. The IWC is one of the leading wine competitions held internationally, attracting more than 10,000 wines from all over the [...]
The Cape wine business gets some bad financial press
Thursday, July 1st, 2010There have been a number of blog articles following from a frontpage story by Stafford Thomas in the South African Financial Mail. Neil Pendock was one of the few who made positive comments re the article in his blog. He expanded on his thoughts on wine.co.za today.
The article has been on my mind for a [...]
Vrede en Lust celebrates harvest 2010 with De Savoye Day
Saturday, April 3rd, 2010The second De Savoye Day Harvest Festival at Vrede en Lust, exceeded guests’ high expectations by all accounts! The weather was perfect, combined with exceptional food platters from Cotage Fromage and off course great wine.
Vrede en Lust Harvest 2010 Report
Friday, April 2nd, 2010It has been 10 weeks since the first Chardonnay came into the cellar in early February. The maiden Shiraz harvested from our Elgin vineyards were the last grapes through the crusher. Susan and her team have crushed 680 tons of grapes brought in by Etienne and his vineyard team.