Meet the Villion Cellar Team
Meet the team behind our Heritage Villion Henning Chenin Blanc 2020. Top Wine at the Novare SA Terrior 2021 Awards. Hendriko Smith, Haven Smith, Zaack Matthee, Westley Arends. Winemakers Kobie Viljoen and Lawrie Moore.
Wildekrans EVOO earns Gold
The winners of the 2021 SA Olive Awards were announced at a gala event at Stellenbosch on September 9th. 43 producers submitted 113 of their best olive oils, which were subject to 5 days of blind tasting and rigorous assessment. The competition was tough, and the standards were high with so many amazing producers submitting […]
The Restaurant at Wildekrans is Reopening
Exciting news, we are busy getting ready to reopen our main restaurant for selected meal seatings! As of the 1st August, you will be able to come and enjoy a breakfast or lunch with us. For now, we are offering this on Saturdays and Sundays only. The menu at The Restaurant now incorporates some casual […]
Pre-order wine & win with Wildekrans Wine Estate
The alcohol ban is back, and it’s tough for us all. You may have been caught unaware with no time to stock up, and we sit with beautiful wines we are just dying to sell. The ban may be on the immediate sale, transport and collection of alcohol, but it does still allow for pre-orders. […]
The Music of Sound
I have seen it before and I’ve heard it before, but I have not experienced it like this before. Bottling our wine on our farm. Not all of us have our own bottling plants. We hire F..Off big trucks with huffing ‘goeters’ and puffing things to come to us to bottle our wine. It reminds […]
Gabrielskloof Vineyard News 2019
After some glorious winter rainfall on Gabrielskloof, sinking into the soil profiles to quench the thirsty deeper roots. We’re through the sensitive flowering cycle for most of the white cultivars, but the reds are lagging due to this cool period. Some pressure to get through the last few blocks for suckering, and to keep a […]
The Bot River Road Show 2019
BOT RIVER WINES WENT ROAD TRIPPIN’ The Bot River Wineries embarked on an epic adventure and the wonderfully eclectic bunch of winemakers dusted off their gumboots in exchange for their city savvy attire. Hitting the road for a trip to Johannesburg, Pretoria, Bloemfontein and Maseru (Lesotho) to promote the beautiful Bot River Wine Route was […]
Luddite Wines – Vineyard News 2019
What an exciting time of the year all flushed, bright and green. Training and shaping young vines to form the backbone and arms to bear fruit for the future, now that we have had some meaningful rain these young vines will grow at a rapid rate and hopefully fill the cordon wire by the end […]
Beaumont Family Wines – Vineyard News 2019
Following the driest August in our 45yr history, we received this beautiful deep wetting rain over the last weekend. Very happy farmer now. Young plantings of Chenin, Pinotage, Grenache and Mourvedre are especially loving it. This will carry the vines a long way trough the season. Looking forward to harvest 2020!
Wildekrans Pinotage gets Double Gold at Veritas Awards
We were really honoured to attend the Veritas Awards on Friday 10th October, and our wines did exceptionally well, with every wine we entered winning a medal! We are most proud of the Double Gold we received for our Barrel Select Reserve Pinotage 2016! As cited on their website: ‘Synonymous with excellence in wine and […]
Wildekrans does well at Michelangelo Awards
We are so pleased to share that we have won 6 Medals at the 2019 Michelangelo Awards: Barrel Select Reserve Pinotage 2015 – Double Gold Wildekrans Checkers Collab Pinotage 2017 – Double Gold Barrel Select Reserve Cabernet Franc 2018 – Gold Barrel Select Reserve Chenin Blanc 2017 – Gold Barrel Select Reserve Pinotage 2016 – […]
Stuart Family Vineyards
Our first barrel of Chenin Blanc from the Stuart Family Vineyards ! Made by our wonderful friend Niels Verburg of Luddite Wines from the first harvest of our very small but nurtured block of Chenin vines. Very delicious – but sadly sold out !! After a nice long winter of cold weather (but sadly not […]
