Category Archives: Winemaker
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 …
3 new wines for summer!
We have just released 3 new wines for summer 2011/2012. This includes new 2011 vintages of the Sauvignon Blanc from our Casey’s Ridge vineyard in Elgin and the new Viognier from Simonsberg-Paarl. In addition, we are proud to introduce a …
3 wines in the top 10′s at WineX Cape Town 2011
The results have been released for this year’s Best of Show wines at WineX Cape Town. These are important indicators, as they are the wines voted Best by the attendees of WineX. They are the good folks who buy wines …
We opt out of Platter sighted reviews!
Vrede en Lust wine estate has stopped submitting wines to the sighted tastings for the annual Platter guide. We hope to remain in Platter from a directory perspective. The decision was not taken lightly and some will criticize us for …
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 …
Four new wines released
We released 4 new wines to our Reserve Wine Club members in the February shipment and at the De Savoye Day Harvest festival on the 5th of March. Since then we have slowly released the wines to the trade and …
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, …
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. …
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 …
Winery capacity increased by 50%
We have mentioned the Cellar upgrade program a few times during the past year and it is finally complete! The original Vrede en Lust winery was completed 10 years ago and designed primarily as a red wine cellar with target …
