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LATE HARVEST: BEAUTIFUL RICH FLAVOURS
Harvest in full swing ESMÉ ERASMUS
Meerendal boasts the oldest vineyard in the Durbanville ward which forms part of arvest time in the Durbanville wine the Wine of Origin Cape Town, says Bennie valley is in full swing, despite a very Howard, marketing manager of Meerendal late start this year – partly due to the Wine Estate. cooler weather in January and February. “The pinotage heritage block vineyard at Thys Louw, owner-winemaker of Diem- Meerendal was planted in 1955 and is still ersdal Wine Estate, says their harvest time producing amazing wines,” Howard says. started on 3 February – more than 10 days This is one of only three remaining old pilater than previous years. notage vineyards in South Africa that are “This is applicable to vineyards from Vre- still producing high quality wine. dendal to Plettenberg Bay,” he says. These old pinotage vines are from the origHowever, says Louw, although considered inal plantings of Prof Abraham Izak Perold, to be “late”, this was the first harvest in al- the father of pinotage, that were made availmost 15 years that is regarded as a “normal” able to wine farmers at that time. year in the Durbanville wine valley. Meerendal made the first wine from this “There were a lot of contributing factors. vineyard under the Heritage Block label in This first sign that 2005 and is proud to we would have a preserve the herinormal, later hartage of this truly vest was the late unique variety and winter until Septhis vineyard at tember. This conMeerendal, Howtributed to a cold ard says. blooming period,” “It is classified he says. as a single vineAccording to yard and forms Louw, vice-chair part of the Certiof the Sauvignon fied Heritage VineBlanc SA commityards project of tee and a board South Africa,” he member of Wine of says. South Africa, the “It is quite amazheat wave this past ing that the grapes weekend will not took almost three have significant efweeks longer to fect, as all the achieve full ripegrapes for their ness this year, as white wines, inthe normal harvest cluding sauvignon date the past 18 blanc, have alyears has been beready been har- Freshly harvested grapes at Meerendal Wine Estate tween 2 and 6 Febvested, while most ready to be taken to the cellar. ruary. of the red cultivars PHOTOS: MEERENDAL WINE ESTATE “This is due to are still on the much cooler vines. weather that has been experienced in the “It is not only a decent size crop, but we Durbanville area the past six weeks. also have impressive flavours – especially “This has contributed to healthy grapes the sauvignon blanc cultivar boasts with that are full of beautiful rich flavours,” he fantastic flavours,” he says. says. According to Howard they usually Last Wednesday morning at Meerendal it start to harvest the sauvignon blanc cultivar was time for the oldest vineyard in Durban- at the end of January, but also only started ville, a 66-year-old pinotage vineyard, to last week with two blocks. show what it’s got. V To page 4
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Damien Cadle, viticulturist at Meerendal Wine Estate, inspects the first picking of the 2021 harvest of the Heritage Block Pinotage. PHOTO: MEERENDAL WINE ESTATE
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