Category Archives: Harvest

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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 …

Balloons of Wishes 2011

SOLD OUT: Jacques de Savoye Day: Harvest Festival 2012

We invite you to join us at the annual Vrede en Lust ‘De Savoye Harvest Festival’ on Saturday 3 March 2012. On De Savoye Day, we celebrate the 2012 grape harvest; honour the founder of Vrede en Lust; release a number …

Vrede en Lust Harvest Team 2012

Harvest team 2012 gets their hands dirty

The 11th harvest in Vrede en Lust’s modern cellar is now fully underway! The team started bringing in the first batch of Chardonnay destined for the Vrede en Lust Sarah 2012 wine this morning. In the winery we have from …

Looking up at the Simonsberg across the Shiraz blocks 10 and 11

Getting ready for Harvest 2012

The 2012 harvest is rapidly approaching. We expect to start harvesting the first grapes during early February. The first grapes in are normally Chardonnay from the Simonsberg-Paarl vineyards and Pinotage for our Jess Rosè, also from our Simonsberg-Paarl vineyard. The …

Baron Willemse

Baron is on his way to Burgundy!

We are very proud to announce that Baron Pieter Willemse is one of eight South African cellar workers selected to partake in the annual Burgundy Exchange Programme for 2011. In addition, we have just heard that Baron has made it …

Jess Cocktails

De Savoye Day 2011

The 5th of March 2011 marked the celebration of our annual De Savoye Day at Vrede en Lust. On this day we celebrate the harvest. We also give some of our guests the opportunity to pick their own grapes, ahead …

Harvest starts early in the morning

Harvest Update 9 March 2011

This has been the hottest January and February that I have experienced in the 16 year on the farm! We have not had any rain since the start of December and our irrigation dam, at the top of the farm, …

Cellar Team 2011

The Vrede en Lust Harvest 2011 Team

The pictured above: Baron,  Ansone, Laura, Louise, Liam, Cyril and Susan (with Anthony below right) Harvest Update The winery has been getting busy for the past 2 weeks and crushed a total of about 120 tons of grapes thus far. …

Ansone and Etienne Loading Chardonnay Harvest 2011

The start of Harvest 2011

We are now into the first week of the 2011 harvest at Vrede en Lust! The cellar gets is distinctive ‘harvest bouquet’ which can be experienced as part of our new winemaking tours. The harvest started with Chardonnay destined for …