Fleur Du Cap Awarded Decade of Winemaking Excellence
09:44:00The Fleur du Cap winemaking team are honoured to be recognised as one of the Top 20 Cellars for the past decade by the SA Wine & Cellar Classifications (SAWCC).
Winemaker Pieter Badenhorst and this team are thrilled that their efforts have received this prestigious accolade: “Because of the freedom we have in our sourcing, we are able to select our grapes from the finest winegrowing regions of the Cape and as such aren’t bound by a specific farm, site, vineyard or climate. We use a more hands-on, traditional winemaking approach rather than modern filtration processes to preserve the colour, flavour and character of the grapes. The result is a range of elegant wines of great complexity with abundant fruit and flavour showing their true varietal character.”
Fleur du Cap wines were among SA Top Ten in each of the major wine categories:
- Fleur du Cap Unfiltered Cabernet Sauvignon
- Fleur du Cap Unfiltered Merlot
- Fleur du Cap Noble Late Harvest
- Fleur du Cap Noble Late Harvest
- Fleur du Cap Unfiltered Cabernet Sauvignon
- Fleur du Cap Unfiltered Chardonnay
More on Fleur du Cap:
Fleur du Cap wines were first launched in 1968, shortly after the opening of Die Bergkelder, the famous mountain cellar which cuts deep into the Papegaaiberg in Stellenbosch. Built by Dr. Anton Rupert, it was the first underground bottle maturation cellar of its kind in the southern hemisphere. Die Bergkelder distinguished itself as an important innovator in the wine industry. In the 1970s, the team played a pivotal role in establishing classic noble grape varieties in the vineyards of the Cape and introduced the maturation of quality wine in small casks of new French oak. The launch in 1998 of the top tier Fleur du Cap Series Unfiltered range is testament to this pioneering legacy.
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