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	<title>Vrede en Lust Blog</title>
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	<description>Vrede en Lust: Passionate for over three hundred years!</description>
	<pubDate>Wed, 21 Jul 2010 10:19:57 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>Boet Erasmus 2007 wins the South African Red Wine Trophy at the International Wine Challenge</title>
		<link>http://vnl.co.za/blog/blog/2010/07/06/boet-eramus-2007-wins-the-south-african-red-wine-trophy-at-the-international-wine-challenge/</link>
		<comments>http://vnl.co.za/blog/blog/2010/07/06/boet-eramus-2007-wins-the-south-african-red-wine-trophy-at-the-international-wine-challenge/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 06 Jul 2010 09:27:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dana Buys</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Food &amp; Wine]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Owners Say]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Boet Erasmus]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Bordeaux style red wines]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[International Wine Challenge]]></category>

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		<category><![CDATA[Susan Erasmus]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[wine competitions]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[On the 30th of June 2010, Vrede en Lust&#8217;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 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Cape wine business gets some bad financial press</title>
		<link>http://vnl.co.za/blog/blog/2010/07/01/the-cape-wine-business-gets-some-bad-financial-press/</link>
		<comments>http://vnl.co.za/blog/blog/2010/07/01/the-cape-wine-business-gets-some-bad-financial-press/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Jul 2010 07:45:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dana Buys</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Owners Say]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Financial Mail]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[GT Ferreira]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Neil Pendock]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Stafford Thomas]]></category>

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There 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 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Vrede en Lust celebrates harvest 2010 with De Savoye Day</title>
		<link>http://vnl.co.za/blog/blog/2010/04/03/vrede-en-lust-celebrates-harvest-2010-with-de-savoye-day/</link>
		<comments>http://vnl.co.za/blog/blog/2010/04/03/vrede-en-lust-celebrates-harvest-2010-with-de-savoye-day/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 03 Apr 2010 07:44:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dana Buys</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Food &amp; Wine]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Owners Say]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Winemaker]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Cotage Fromage]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[De Savoye Day]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Harvest Festival]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The 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.]]></description>
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		<title>Vrede en Lust Harvest 2010 Report</title>
		<link>http://vnl.co.za/blog/blog/2010/04/02/vrede-en-lust-harvest-2010-report/</link>
		<comments>http://vnl.co.za/blog/blog/2010/04/02/vrede-en-lust-harvest-2010-report/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 02 Apr 2010 14:01:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dana Buys</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Owners Say]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Winemaker]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[2010]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[cellar]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Elgin]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Etienne Buys]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Harvest]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Ricton]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Susan Erasmus]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[It 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.]]></description>
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		<title>Testing the Pellenc Automatic Grape Sorter at Vrede en Lust</title>
		<link>http://vnl.co.za/blog/blog/2010/03/01/testing-the-pellect-automatic-grape-sorter-at-vrede-en-lust/</link>
		<comments>http://vnl.co.za/blog/blog/2010/03/01/testing-the-pellect-automatic-grape-sorter-at-vrede-en-lust/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Mar 2010 16:01:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dana Buys</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Owners Say]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[automatic sorting]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Harvest]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Pellenc]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Sauvignon Blanc]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Shiraz]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Susan]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Pellenc has been kind enough to use Vrede en Lust as one of its South African test wineries for its exciting new Selectiv Process Winery sorter. When grapes are harvested they come with MOG (matters other than grape) and berries are unsuitable for quality wine production.
The term MOG covers a range of things including snails, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Join us for the De Savoye Harvest festival 2010!</title>
		<link>http://vnl.co.za/blog/blog/2010/02/16/join-us-for-the-de-savoye-harvest-festival-2010/</link>
		<comments>http://vnl.co.za/blog/blog/2010/02/16/join-us-for-the-de-savoye-harvest-festival-2010/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 16 Feb 2010 11:24:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dana Buys</dc:creator>
		
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		<category><![CDATA[Owners Say]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[De Savoy Day]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Harvest Festival]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[﻿﻿In 1688 Jacques de Savoye came to South Africa and was granted Vrede en Lust, which in Dutch means &#8220;Peace and Passion&#8221;. We would like to invite you to the Vrede en Lust Savoye Day Harvest Festival to celebrate the 2010 harvest and our history spanning over 322 years!


For the brave ones, who wish to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Meet the Vrede en Lust Harvest 2010 team!</title>
		<link>http://vnl.co.za/blog/blog/2010/02/08/meet-the-vrede-en-lust-harvest-2010-team/</link>
		<comments>http://vnl.co.za/blog/blog/2010/02/08/meet-the-vrede-en-lust-harvest-2010-team/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Feb 2010 14:41:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dana Buys</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Owners Say]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Ansone Fourie]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Baron Willemse]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Ben Strydon]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Etienne Buys]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[harvest 2010]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Natalee Hamilton]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Meet the Vrede en Lust Harvest 2010 team! Nearly 7 days into the harvest they have already crushed 83 tons!

Ansone Fourie, Susan Erasmus, Natalee Hamilton, Ben Snyman, Baron Willemse, Etienne Buys with some Pinotage destined for Rose tipping into the receiving bin

Susan is of course the Vrede en Lust winemaker (South Africa&#8217;s women winemaker of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Half the bottle, Twice the choice!</title>
		<link>http://vnl.co.za/blog/blog/2010/02/04/half-the-bottle-twice-the-choice/</link>
		<comments>http://vnl.co.za/blog/blog/2010/02/04/half-the-bottle-twice-the-choice/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Feb 2010 12:17:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dana Buys</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Owners Say]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Uncategorized]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Cathy Marston]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Half Bottles]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[wine.co.za]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Cathy Marston wrote an interesting article re half bottles on Wine.co.za. She asked me for a few comments which I happily did. It is quite sad that there is so little interest in educating the public more about the benefits of half bottles.
I agree with Fiona that PET bottles may be a great option (weight [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Harves 2010 gets under way!</title>
		<link>http://vnl.co.za/blog/blog/2010/02/03/harves-2010-gets-under-way/</link>
		<comments>http://vnl.co.za/blog/blog/2010/02/03/harves-2010-gets-under-way/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Feb 2010 14:41:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dana Buys</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Owners Say]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Winemaker]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Caseys Ridge]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Etienne Buys]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[harvest 2010]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Pinor Grigio]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Ricton]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Shiraz]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Susan Wessels]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Etienne and his team was up before sunrise on the 2nd of February to start harvesting the 1st grapes for the Vrede en Lust 2010 harvest. It is our 9th harvest of the modern era at the new winery as well as Susan&#8217;s 4th full harvest at Vrede en Lust! Susan and Etienne have gained [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Beautiful new Eddie Wilson photo shoot at Vrede en Lust</title>
		<link>http://vnl.co.za/blog/blog/2010/01/04/beautiful-new-eddie-wilson-photo-shoot-at-vrede-en-lust/</link>
		<comments>http://vnl.co.za/blog/blog/2010/01/04/beautiful-new-eddie-wilson-photo-shoot-at-vrede-en-lust/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 04 Jan 2010 12:20:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dana Buys</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Owners Say]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Eddie Wilson]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Vrede en Lust photos]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[ We have just uploaded a set of beautiful photo&#8217;s taken by the very talented Eddie Wilson onto our Vrede en Lust facebook page.
The set is called Vrede en Lust Summer 2009. We can have prints produced for those interested in any of them!
]]></description>
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