Author Archives: Dana Buys
2012: a Watershed year for Vrede en Lust
Happy New Year! We hope that 2013 will be a great year for you and your loved ones, with plenty of happiness, good health and friendship. Hope to see you on the farm and if not, at least at one …
So happy we have gone Solar!
Eskom has outlined its electricity price hikes for the next 15 years and it is an ugly picture! The Financial Director of Eskom, Paul O’Flaherty, outlined Eskom’s longer term plans and assumptions to parliament this week. Here is a quote …
4 wines in the Top-10 at RMB WineX Johannesburg!
WineX is the largest of the fine wine shows held annually in Gauteng and Cape Town. This year WineX Gauteng ran from the 24th to the 26th of October at the Sandton Convention Center. 170 Wineries participated and more than …
Vrede en Lust goes Solar!
The Vrede en Lust winery, in the beautiful Franschhoek wine valley, has commissioned MLT Drives (Pty) Ltd of Cape Town to install a 218 KWp solar power plant. The leading edge photo-voltaic (PV) solar plant will generate 374,000 kWh annually, enough …
Welcome to May Wu, our first international employee!
We are very happy to welcome May Wu (Wu, Meijun for those who understand the Chinese way of stating a name) to the Vrede en Lust team! May, pictured above with Susan and Etienne at a wine show in Guangzhou …
Etienne Buys promoted to Managing Partner
Congratulation to Etienne Buys who has been promoted to the General Manager and Managing Partner of Vrede en Lust! Etienne has been a partner in the partnership since 1998 with specific responsibility for all the farming activities including the vineyards …
A much more ‘French’ Bastille this year
Franschhoek Wine Valley, our local tourism organization, has concluded some very interesting twinning agreements in recent years. Under CEO Jenny Prinsloo’s watch we have reached twinning agreements with Napa Valley (USA of course) and with the Rhône-Alpes Region in France. To …
VinExpo Asia 2012
Whilst our main focus remains on the South African domestic wine market, Anneke and I had the privilege of participating in the recent VinExpo Asia wine show in Hong Kong. We have previously done 2 Hong Kong International Wine & …
The 2012 Harvest in numbers and graphs
The 2012 harvesting is now over and the winery is much quieter. Some of the red wines are still undergoing malolactic (secondary) fermentation and some whites are still busy completing barrel fermentation. Full details are to be found on our …
De Savoye Day 2012 Harvest Festival in Pictures
The 3rd of March marked the annual Harvest Blessing and Celebration here at Vrede en Lust – Jacques de Savoye Day 2012! Named in honour of the oirginal founder of Vrede en Lust, back in April 1688. We were blessed …
