As we celebrate Pinot Noir Day on 18 August, Cellar Master Jan ‘Boland’ Coetzee whose Pinot Noir journey began in 1976 reflects on the Pinot Noir grape varietal. “Where the grape feels at home, it’s where the land is...
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Nestled in Stellenbosch’s Paradyskloof Valley is Vriesenhof Wine Estate, with its south facing slopes that have been used to cultivate grapes that produce wines of character since the eighteenth century. But one cannot discuss character and...
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Now that the leaves have fallen off, the grapes have been removed, as well as the unwanted shoots, pruning has begun at Vriesenhof . The timing of pruning the vineyards is extremely important. Early pruning or pre-pruning, as we call it is...
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